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 “grief”
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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