Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles
Top 10 Best Quotes
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
“Not to be born at all Is best, far best that can befall, Next best, when born, with least delay To trace the backward way. For when youth passes with its giddy train, Troubles on troubles follow, toils on toils, Pain, pain forever pain; And none escapes life's coils. Envy, sedition, strife, Carnage and war, make up the tale of life.”
“Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.”
“To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!”
“The good leader repeats the good news, keeps the worst to himself.”
“We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.”
“Enough words! The criminals are escaping, we the victims, we stand still.”
“A man's anger can never age and fade away, not until he dies. The dead alone feel no pain.”
“The weak can defeat the strong in a case as just as mine.”
“And if to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.”
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