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Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles Original title Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ

Oedipus at Colonus is one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles's death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC.

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”

Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus

Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18

“Not to be born is, beyond all estimation, best; but when a man has seen the light of day, this is next best by far, that with utmost speed he should go back from where he came.”

Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus

Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1225; English translation by Sir Richard Jebb

“In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.”

Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus

Œdipus Coloneus, 880.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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