Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Sophocles
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Works
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Ajax
Antigone
Electra
Fragments
Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus Rex
Philoctetes
Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes
The Complete Greek Tragedies
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone
The Oedipus Tyrannus
White Lies
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Silence is an ornament for women.
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
No lie ever reaches old age.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
Not even old age knows how to love death.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.
Closer, it__ all right. Touch the man of grief.Do. Don__ be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.
Time is a kindly god.
Success is dependent on effort.
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.