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“If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“Which would you choose if you could:
pleasure for yourself despite your friends
or a share in their grief?”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“It is a painful thing
To look at your own trouble and know
That you yourself and no one else has made it”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“أيتها المرأة إن الصمت هو زينة النساء.”
― Sophocles, أياس

“Shall not I
Learn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,
Only so much to hate my enemy,
As though he might again become my friend,
And so much good to wish to do my friend,
As knowing he may yet become my foe?”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“فإن النظر إلى المصائب التي سببها المرء لنفسه ، والتي لم تفعلها سوى يديه ، يترك في النفس آلاماً مريرة.”
― Sophocles, أياس

“All things the long and countless years first draw from darkness, then bury from light; and there is nothing for which man may not look. The dreaded oath is vanquished, and the stubborn will.”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“heaviest of all woe Is theirs whose life is crushed beyond recall.”
― Sophocles, Aias

“I pity him in his misery for all that he is my foe, because he is bound fast to a dread doom. I think of my own lot no less than his. For I see that we are phantoms, all we who live, or fleeting shadows.”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“Oft we know not till we see. Weak is human prophecy. Judge not, till the hour have taught thee What the destinies have brought thee.”
― Sophocles, Aias

“To look on self-wrought woes, when no other has had a hand in them- this lays sharp pangs to the soul.”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“For dullards know not goodness in their hand, Nor prize the jewel till ‘tis cast away.”
― Sophocles, Aias

“Say, can the mind be noble, where the stream Of gratitude is withered from the spring?”
― Sophocles, Aias

“For now I feel All we who live are but an empty show And idle pageant of a shadowy dream.”
― Sophocles, Aias

“إن قاوب البشر تتحول من الحب إلى الكراهية كثيراً.”
― Sophocles, أياس

“فإن الرجال الحمقى لا يقدرون ما يملكونه من نعم إلى أن تحرمهم الأقدار منه .”
― Sophocles, أياس

“إن المرء إذا هاجم شخصيات عظيمة فلن تضل سهامه الهدف . أما إذا نطق أحدهم بهذه الإشاعات عن شخص مثلي -مثلاً- فلن يصدقه أحد ، فإن العظماء وحدهم هم المحسودون.”
― Sophocles, أياس

“Tis hard for power to observe each pious rule.”
― Sophocles, Aias

“I will screen my soul From reach of Pallas�� grievous wrath.”
― Sophocles, Aias

“Shame on the wight who when beset with ill Cares to live on in misery unrelieved.”
― Sophocles, Aias

“Every slander wins belief Aimed at souls whose worth is chief:”
― Sophocles, Aias

“And with loudly waxing mirth Heaping insult on thy grief, Each who hears it glories more Than the tongue that told before.”
― Sophocles, Aias

“Ath. I will confound his sense although he see.”
― Sophocles, Aias

“That all our gathered spoil was reaved and slaughtered, Flocks, herds, and herdmen, by some human hand,”
― Sophocles, Aias

“AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux.

ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuvent obéir aux amis qui les conseillent bien.”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“To stretch your life out when you see
that nothing can break its misery
is shameful �� day after day
moving forward or back from the end line
of death. There’s no joy in that
Any mortal who warms his heart
over empty hopes is worthless
in my eyes. Honor in life
or in death; if a man is born noble,
he must have one or the other.”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“É uma vergonha para um homem almejar uma longa vida, se não conseguir libertar-se dos seus males.”
― Sophocles, Ajax