Szophoklész híres idézetei
Szophoklész idézetek
Szophoklész: Idézetek angolul
“Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.”
Sophocles Trachiniae
Forrás: Trachiniae, Line 592–593.
“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!”
Változat: Wisdom is a curse when wisdom does nothing for the man who has it.
Forrás: Oedipus Rex, Line 316.
“A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.”
Sophocles Trachiniae
Forrás: Trachiniae, Line 296.
Sophocles Ajax
Ὦ παῖ, γένοιο πατρὸς εὐτυχέστερος,
τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ ὅμοιος: καὶ γένοι᾽ ἂν οὐ κακός
Ajax, lines 550-551; English translation by Richard Jebb
Ajax
Achilles' Loves, only surviving fragment, often quoted as "Love is like ice in the hands of children".
“I will never reveal my dreadful secrets, or rather, yours.”
Teiresias (Line 332?).
Oedipus Rex
Változat: I will not wound myself nor thee. Why seek
To trap and question me? I will not speak.
Változat: Nay, I see that thou, on thy part, openest not thy lips in season: therefore I speak not, that neither may I have thy mishap.
“In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.”
Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus
Œdipus Coloneus, 880.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”
Forrás: Antigone, Line 563
“No man loves life like him that's growing old.”
Acrisius, fragment 64.
Sophocles Trachiniae
Forrás: Trachiniae, Line 441.
Trachiniæ, 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A short saying often contains much wisdom.”
Aletes, fragment 99.
“War loves to seek its victims in the young.”
Scyrii, Frag. 507.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.”
Forrás: Antigone, Line 277; cf. "Don’t shoot the messenger."
Forrás: Antigone, Line 181
“Children are the anchors of a mother's life.”
Fragment 685.
Phædra
Plato, Republic, 1.329c. Translated by Paul Shorey.
Jocasta (Line 977?).
Oedipus Rex
Változat: Nay, what should mortal fear, for whom the decrees of fortune are supreme and who hath clear foresight of nothing? 'Tis best to live at random, as one may.
“The truth is always the strongest argument.”
Fragment 737.
Phædra
Sophocles Trachiniae
Forrás: Trachiniae, Line 943.
“It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.”
Peleus, Frag. 445.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“For whoso lives, as I, in many woes,
How can it be but death shall bring him gain?”
ὅστις γὰρ ἐν πολλοῖσιν ὡς ἐγὼ κακοῖς<br>ζῇ, πῶς ὅδ᾽ οὐχὶ κατθανὼν κέρδος φέρει <br class="br">Forrás: Antigone, Line 463-464; Plumptre translation https://archive.org/stream/b24865898#page/444/mode/2up