Dzieło
Sofokles słynne cytaty
Sofokles Cytaty o ludziach
Sofokles cytaty
zapytany w podeszłym wieku o swoje życie seksualne.
„Głupota jest siostrą zbrodni.”
Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, wyboru dokonał Krzysztof Nowak, Warszawa 1998.
„Niczym to państwo, co jednemu służy.”
Źródło: Danuta Gorajewska, Fakty i mity o osobach z niepełnosprawnością, Stowarzyszenie Przyjaciół Integracji, Warszawa 2006.
„Jak to zrozumieć, jak pochwalić, kiedy
Boski ład chwaląc, bogów za złych uznam?”
słowa Filokteta
Źródło: Filoktet, przeł. Jerzy Łanowski
Sofokles: Cytaty po angielsku
“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”
Sophocles Electra
Electra, 1007.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.”
Variant translation: There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.
Źródło: Antigone, Line 333 (Ode I)
“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus
Źródło: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18
Scyrii, Frag. 510.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.”
Źródło: Antigone, Line 123
Źródło: Antigone, Lines 295-303
“The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.”
Źródło: Oedipus Rex, Line 1184, Second Messenger; one commonly quoted translation is, "The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities".
“Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.”
Fragment 288. (Plumptre's translation, as cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1906)
Wariant: Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
Wariant: Look upon him, O my Thebans, on your king, the child of fame!<br>This mighty man, this Œdipus the lore far-famed could guess,<br>And envy from each Theban won, so great his lordliness—<br>Lo to what a surge of sorrow and confusion hath he come!<br>Let us call no mortal happy till our eyes have seen the doom<br>And the death-day come upon him—till, unharassed by mischance,<br>He pass the bound of mortal life, the goal of ordinance.<br>[ Tr. E. D. A. Morshead http://books.google.com/books?id=i7wXAAAAYAAJ (1885)] <br class="br">Wariant: People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus.<br>He solved the famous riddle, with his brilliance,<br>he rose to power, a man beyond all power.<br>Who could behold his greatness without envy?<br>Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him.<br>Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day,<br>count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.<br>[quoted by Thomas Cahill in Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea] <br class="br">Źródło: Oedipus Rex, Line 1529, Choragos.
“A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.”
Fragment 947.
Phædra
Źródło: Pearson, A.C. (1917). The Fragments of Sophocles (with additional notes from the papers of Sir R.C. Jebb and W.G. Headlam). Vol. 3. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1917. Retrieved on 2017-01-06 from https://archive.org/details/fragmentseditedw03sophuoft.
Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus
Źródło: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1225; English translation by Sir Richard Jebb
Źródło: Antigone, Line 781 (Ode III)
“Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.”
Fragment 854.
Phædra
“Evil sometimes seems good
To a man whose mind
A god leads to destruction.”
Źródło: Antigone, Lines 620-3
“Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,
Befits proud birth.”
Sophocles Ajax
ἀλλ᾽ ἢ καλῶς ζῆν ἢ καλῶς τεθνηκέναι
τὸν εὐγενῆ χρή
Źródło: Ajax, Lines 479-480
“Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”
Źródło: Antigone, Line 295
“Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.”
Źródło: Antigone, Line 706
τοῖς πᾶσι κοινόν ἐστι τοὐξαμαρτάνειν:
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἁμάρτῃ, κεῖνος οὐκέτ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἀνὴρ
ἄβουλος οὐδ᾽ ἄνολβος, ὅστις ἐς κακὸν
πεσὼν ἀκῆται μηδ᾽ ἀκίνητος πέλῃ.
Źródło: Antigone, Lines 1024-1027; cf. Book of Proverbs 28:13
Sophocles Ajax
χάρις χάριν γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τίκτουσ᾽ ἀεί
ὅτου δ᾽ ἀπορρεῖ μνῆστις εὖ πεπονθότος,
οὐκ ἂν γένοιτ᾽ ἔθ᾽ οὗτος εὐγενὴς ἀνήρ.
Źródło: Ajax, Lines 522-524
“If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.”
Vit. Anon, page 64 (Plumptre's Trans.).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Oedipus (Line 1079?).
Oedipus Rex
Wariant: I am Fortune's child,
Not man's; her mother face hath ever smiled
Above me, and my brethren of the sky,
The changing Moons, have changed me low and high.
There is my lineage true, which none shall wrest
From me; who then am I to fear this quest?
