Sophocles

Evil gains work their punishment.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

I am determined that never, if I can help it,Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love.

When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death?Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life

I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mortal, that my claimUpon the future is no more than yours.

Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friendsor a share in their grief?

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene, Antigone (The Theban Plays) by Sophocles

Prefiero, señor, obrar bien y fracasar, antes que triunfar con malas artes.Palabras de Neoptólemo a Odiseo, en la tragedia griega Filoctetes.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes