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Sophocles5 quotes
There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man. — Sophocles · 441 BCThe happiest life consists in ignorance. — Sophocles · 442 BCIn view of that, conceal nothing! For all things are unfolded by all-seeing and all-hearing time. — Sophocles · 468 BCNot to be born is, past all prizing, best. — Sophocles · 406 BCOf all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. — Sophocles · 430 BCAeschylus4 quotes
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. — Aeschylus · 458 BCNeither anarchy nor tyranny—this I counsel my citizens to support and respect, and not to drive fear wholly out of the city. For who among mortals, if he fears nothing, is righteous? — Aeschylus · 458 BCWho told them
that they were dead. — AeschylusI consider false words to be the foulest sickness. — AeschylusAristophanes3 quotes
The old are in a second childhood. — Aristophanes · 423 BCThese impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them! — Aristophanes · 411 BCYou have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes · 424 BCEuripides1 quote
My tongue swore, but my mind's unsworn. — Euripides · 428 BC