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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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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.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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All men make mistakes.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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Of all vile things current on earth, none is so vile as money.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the silence that grows palpable when one has finished a canto of Dante, he says, is quite different from the silence that grows palpable when one has reached the end of Oedipus at Colonus. The most terrible thing that has happened to people today, he says, is that they have grown frightened of silence. Instead of seeking it as a friend and as a source of renewal they now try in every way they can to shut it out... the fear of silence is the fear of loneliness, he says, and the fear of loneliness is the fear of silence. People fear silence, he says, because they have lost the ability to trust the world to bring about renewal. Silence for them means only the recognition that they have been abandoned... How can people find the strength to be happy if they are so terrified of silence?
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Gabriel Josipovici (Moo Pak)
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How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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If through no fault of his own the hero is crushed by a bulldozer in Act II, we are not impressed. Even though life is often like thisโthe absconding cashier on his way to Nicaragua is killed in a collision at the airport, the prominent statesman dies of a stroke in the midst of the negotiations he has spent years to bring about, the young lovers are drowned in a boating accident the day before their marriageโsuch events, the warp and woof of everyday life, seem irrelevant, meaningless. They are crude, undigested, unpurged bits of realityโto draw a metaphor from the late J. Edgar Hoover, they are โraw files.โ But it is the function of great art to purge and give meaning to human suffering, and so we expect that if the hero is indeed crushed by a bulldozer in Act II there will be some reason for it, and not just some reason but a good one, one which makes sense in terms of the heroโs personality and action. In fact, we expect to be shown that he is in some way responsible for what happens to him.
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Bernard Knox (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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The good leader repeats the good news, keeps the worst to himself.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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Enough words! The criminals are escaping, we the victims, we stand still.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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A man's anger can never age and fade away, not until he dies. The dead alone feel no pain.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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One soul is enough, I know, to pay the debt for thousands, if one will go to the gods in all good faith.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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The weak can defeat the strong in a case as just as mine.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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Sentry: King, may I speak?
Creon: Your very voice distresses me.
Sentry: Are you sure that it is my voice, and not your conscience?
Creon: By God, he wants to analyze me now!
Sentry: It is not what I say, but what has been done, that hurts you.
Creon: You talk too much.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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It's little I ask, and get still less, but quite enough for me.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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Show me a man who longs to live a day beyond his time who turns his back on a decent length of life, I'll show the world a man who clings to folly.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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By God, I'll have more booty in a moment.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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What foolishness it is to desire more life, after one has tasted
A bit of it and seen the world; for each day, after each endless day,
Piles up ever more misery into a mound. As for pleasures: once we
Have passed youth they vanish away, never again to be seen.
Death is the end of all.
Never to be born is the best thing. To have seen the daylight
And be swept instantly back into dark oblivion comes second.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (Focus Classical Library))
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And if to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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You'll never find a man on Earth, if a god leads him on, who can escape his fate.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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Even in these straits our life is not as pitiful as you'd think, so long as we find joy in every hour.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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The dead alone feel no pain.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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It's not through words but actions that I want to set the luster on my life.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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To a terrible place which menโs ears ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย may not hear of, nor their eyes see it.
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Sophocles (Sophocles I: The Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus (The Complete Greek Tragedies Book 1))
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I could not turn away from anyone
Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him.
I know well, being mortal, that my claim
Upon the future is no more than yours.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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Inviolable, untrod; goddesses,
Dread brood of Earth and Darkness, here abide.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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What you cannot enforce, do not command!
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Sophocles
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Commit cruelty on a person long enough and the mind begins to go.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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...Time, sweeping through its rounds, gives birth to infinite nights and days...
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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ููู
ุฉ ูุงุญุฏุฉ ุชุฌุนู ุงูู
ุตุงุนุจ ุชุฎุชููุ ูุฐู ุงูููู
ุฉ ูู ุงูุญุจ.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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Your edict, King, was strong,
But all your strength is weakness itself against
The immortal unrecorded laws of God.
They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,
Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.
I knew I must die, even without your decree:
I am only mortal. And if I must die
Now, before it is my time to die,
Surely this is no hardship: can anyone
Living, as I live, with evil all about me,
Think Death less than a friend?
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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They see you and me: they know my pain's a fact, my revenge is empty breath.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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Death the deliverer freeth all at last.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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The dead alone can feel no touch of spite.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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In his den the monster keep, Giver of eternal sleep.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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And remember that the captor is now the captive; the hunter is in the snare. What was won by stealth will not be kept.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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just thinking of all your days to come, the bitterness,
the life that rough mankind will thrust upon you.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus)
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Blind,
lost in the night, endless night that nursed you!
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus)
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ุฑุบู
ุฃู ุงูุขููุฉ ุชุฑู ูู ุดุฆุ ูุฅููุง ูุฏ ุชุชุฃุฎุฑ ูู ุฅูุฒุงู ุงูุนูุงุจ ุจู
ู ูุญูุฏูู ุนู ุงูุทุฑูู ุงููููู
ููุฎุทุฆูู.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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ุฃูุฏุงุฑ ุงูุขููุฉ ูุง ุฑุงุฏ ููุง.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; It melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade, since time began.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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Though he has watched a decent age pass by,
A man will sometimes still desire the world.
I swear I see no wisdom in that man.
The endless hours pile up a drift of pain
More unrelieved each day; and as for pleasure,
When he is sunken in excessive age,
You will not see his pleasure anywhere.
- Choral Poem between Scenes V & VI, Oedipus at Colonus
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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Reason is God's crowning gift to man, and you are right
To warn me against losing mine. I cannot sayโ
I hope that I shall never want to say!โ that you
Have reasoned badly. Yet there are other men
Who can reason, too; and their opinions might be helpful.
You are not in a position to know everything
That people say or do, or what they feel:
Your temper terrifies themโeveryone
Will tell you only what you like to hear.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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Greece and Poverty,โ said the historian Herodotus, โhave always been bedfellowsโ;
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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The sea was the true center of the Greek world: โwe live round the sea,โ says Platoโs Socrates, โlike frogs . . . around a pond.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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Alas for the seed of man.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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Thou seek'st to part us, wrapping in soft words Hard thoughts.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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Compassion limits even the power of God.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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Itโs no city at all, owned by one man alone.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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A herdsman, were you? A vagabond, scraping for wages? MESSENGER: Your savior too, my son, in your worst hour.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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Brothers in old age, two of a kind,
he and our guest here.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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None of your power follows you through life.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus)
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The truth with all its power lives inside me.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus)
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I pity you, flinging at me the very insults
each man here will fling at you so soon.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus)
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True, it is not your fate
to fall at my hands. Apollo is quite enough,
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus)
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I am not your slave. I serve Apollo.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus)
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so I believedโwhat a handsome prince you raisedโ
under the skin, what sickness to the core.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus)
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Good news.
I tell you even the hardest things to bear,
if they should turn out well, all would be well.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus)
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Banish the man, or pay back blood with blood.
Murder sets the plague-storm on the city.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus)
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Creon is not your downfall, no, you are your own.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus)
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You are the king no doubt, but in one respect,
at least, I am your equal: the right to reply.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus)
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What good were eyes to me?
Nothing I could see could bring me joy.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus)
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I only ask to live, with pure faith keeping
In word and deed that Law which leaps the sky,
Made of no mortal mould, undimmed, unsleeping
Whose living godhead does not age or die.
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Sophocles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone)
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Many years have passed since OEDIPUS solved the riddle of the Sphinx and ascended the throne of Thebes, and now a plague has struck the city.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus)
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You criticize my temper ... unaware
of the one you live with, you revile me.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus)
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ุงูุนุฏูุฏ ู
ู ุงูู
ุฏู ุชูุฒุน ุฅูู ุงูุนุฏูุงู ุนูู ุฌูุฑุงููุง ุฑุบู
ุฃู ูุคูุงุก ุงูุฌูุฑุงู ูุญุณููู ุงูุณููู.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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ุฅู ุงูุฃุตูุงุช ูุฏ ุชุฑุชูุน ุจุชูุฏูุฏุงุช ูุงุฑุบุฉ ุฃุซูุงุก ุงูุบุถุจ ุฏูู ุฌุฏููุ ูููููุง ุณุฑุนุงู ู
ุง ุชุฎุชูู ุนูุฏู
ุง ุชูุฏุฃ ุงูุนููู ููุชุญูู
ุงูู
ุฑุก ูู ุบุถุจู.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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ูุง ุชุฃู
ุฑ ู
ู ูุง ุณูุทุฉ ูู ุนููู.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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ุฅู ุงูุบุถุจ ูุง ูุนุฑู ุงูุดูุฎูุฎุฉุ ููุง ูุฎุชูู ุงูุบุถุจ ุฅูุง ู
ุน ุงูู
ูุชุ ูุงูู
ูุชู ูุญุณุจ ูู
ุงูุฐูู ูุง ูุดุนุฑูู ุจุงูุบุถุจ.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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ุงูู
ูุงุณุจ ุงูุชู ูุชู
ุงูุญุตูู ุนูููุง ุจุทุฑู ุญููุฑุฉ ุณุฑุนุงู ู
ุง ุชุฒูู.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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Dionysus is the life-spirit of all green vegetationโivy, pine tree and especially the vine; he is, in Dylan Thomasโ phrase, โthe force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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But nothing else escapes all-ruinous time.
Earth's might decays, the might of men decays,
Honor grows cold, dishonor flourishes,
There is no constancy 'twixt friend and friend,
Or city and city; be it soon or late,
Sweet turns to bitter, hate once more to love.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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When the Greek mercenaries of Xenophonโs Anabasis, after months of marching and fighting in the mountains of Turkey, finally reached the Black Sea, one of them said, thankfully, โNow I can go home like Odysseus, flat on my back.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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In a just cause, the weak overcome the strongโ.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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The Greeks, who gave us history, philosophy and political science, never managed to solve the problems posed by their political disunity;
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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Reserved for the priest of Dionysus
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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So,
when I am nothingโthen am I a man?
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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A manโs anger can never age and fade away,
not until he dies. The dead alone feel no pain.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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Look through all humanity: youโll never find
a man on earth, if a god leads him on,
who can escape his fate.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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Never honor the gods in one breath
and take the gods for fools the next.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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But surely they will shroud my corpse with Theban dust?
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day,
count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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I stumbled on you,
down the woody Hanks of Mount Cithaeron.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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O godโ
all come true, all burst to light!
O lightโnow let me look my last on you!
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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O the generations of men92
the dying generationsโadding the total
of all your lives I find they come to nothing
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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How, how could the furrows your father plowed
bear you, your agony, harrowing on
in silence O so long?
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))
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CHORUS: What canst thou plead?
OEDIPUS: A plea of justice.
CHORUS: How?
OEDIPUS: I slew who else would me have slain; I slew without intent, A wretch, but innocent In the law's eye, I stand, without a stain.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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Though he has watched a decent age pass by,
A man will sometimes still desire the world.
I swear I see no wisdom in that man.
The endless hours pile up a drift of pain
More unrelieved each day: and as for pleasure,
When he is sunken in excessive age,
You will not see his pleasure anywhere.
The last attendant is the same for all,
Old men and young alike, as in its season
Man's heritage of underworld appears:
There being no epithalamion,
No music and no dance. Death is the finish.
Not to be born beats all philosophy.
The second best is to have seen the light
And then to go back quickly whence we came.
The feathery follies of his youth once over,
What trouble is beyond the range of man?
What heavy burden will he not endure?
Jealousy, faction, quarreling, and battle--
The bloodiness of war, the grief of war.
And in the end he comes to strengthless age,
Abhorred by all men, without company,
Unfriended in that uttermost twilight
Where he must live with every bitter thing.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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You are the king no doubt, but in one respect,
at least, I am your equal: the right to reply.
I claim that privilege too.
I am not your slave. I serve Apollo.
I don't need Creon to speak for me in public.
So,
you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this.
You with your precious eyes,
you're blind to the corruption in your life,
to the house you live in, those you live with-
who are your parents? Do you know? All unknowing
you are the scourge of your own flesh and blood,
the dead below the earth and the living here above,
and the double lash of your mother and your father's curse
will whip you from this land one day, their footfall
treading you down in terror, darkness shrouding
your eyes that now can see the light!
Soon, soon,
you'll scream aloud - what haven won't reverberate?
What rock of Cithaeron won't scream back in echo?
That day you learn the truth about your marriage,
the wedding-march that sang you into your halls,
the lusty voyage home to the fatal harbor!
And a crowd of other horrors you'd never dream
will level you with yourself and all your children.
There. Now smear us with insults - Creon, myself
and every word I've said. No man will ever
be rooted from the earth as brutally as you.
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Robert Fagles (The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone)
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Upon that foreign soil he chose
Died he! For ever laid
Low, in the kindly shade,
He left behind no tearless grief,
No measured mourning, dull and brief,
These eyes are wet
With weeping yet,
Nor know I how to find relief."
Antigone
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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ุฅู ุงูุขููุฉ ูุญุณุจ ูู ุงูุชู ูุง ุชุดูุฎ ุฃุจุฏุงู ููุง ุชู
ูุชุ ุงู
ุง ูู ู
ุง ุนุฏุงูุง ูุฅู ุงูุฒู
ู ุงูุฐู ูุณูุทุฑ ุนูู ูู ุดุฆ ูุคุซุฑ ูููุ ูุฅู ุงูุฃุฑุถ ุงูุนููุฉ ูุตูุจูุง ุงูุถุนูุ ูููุฉ ุงูุฌุณุฏ ุชุถู
ุญูุ ูู
ุง ุชู
ูุช ุงูุซูุฉ ููุธูุฑ ุจุฏูุงู ู
ููุง ุนุฏู
ุงูุซูุฉุ ููุง ุชุธู ุงูู
ุดุงุนุฑ ุฐุงุชูุง ุจูู ุงูุจุดุฑ ุญุชู ููู ูุงููุง ุฃุตุฏูุงุกุ ููุฐูู ุจูู ุงูู
ุฏูุ ูุฃูู ูุญูู ููุจุดุฑ -ุทุงู ุงูููุช ุฃู
ูุตุฑ- ุฃู ูุชุญูููุง ุจุนูุงุทููู
ู
ู ุงูุญุจ ุฅูู ุงููุฑุงููุฉ ูุจุงูุนูุณ.
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Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2))
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One modern oratorio adaptation, The Gospel at Colonus (by Lee Breuer and Bob Telson, 1989), based on Robert Fitzgeraldโs translation in our series, has been acclaimed by critics and audiences as a high point of twentieth-century adaptation of Greek tragedy.
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Sophocles (Sophocles I: The Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus (The Complete Greek Tragedies Book 1))
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My sisters, you, his daughters!
Now that youโve heard our fatherโs iron curses,
I implore you in the name of the gods,
if fatherโs curses all come true at last,
and if some way back to Thebes is found for you,
donโt neglect me, please, give me burial,
the honored rites of death.
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Sophocles (The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (Annotated))