About Sophocles
Sophocles (; Ancient Greek: Σοφοκλῆς, pronounced [so.pʰo.klɛ̂ːs], Sophoklễs; c. 497/496 – winter 406/405 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary...
More quotations from Sophocles
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.
More quotations tagged with “evil”
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
—Ovid
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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