Sófocles: Frases en inglés (página 2)

ἀλλ᾽ ἢ καλῶς ζῆν ἢ καλῶς τεθνηκέναι
τὸν εὐγενῆ χρή
Fuente: Ajax, Lines 479-480

Fragment 848.
Phædra

Fuente: Antigone, Line 295

Fuente: Antigone, Lines 311-314

Fuente: Antigone, Line 706

τοῖς πᾶσι κοινόν ἐστι τοὐξαμαρτάνειν:
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἁμάρτῃ, κεῖνος οὐκέτ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἀνὴρ
ἄβουλος οὐδ᾽ ἄνολβος, ὅστις ἐς κακὸν
πεσὼν ἀκῆται μηδ᾽ ἀκίνητος πέλῃ.
Fuente: Antigone, Lines 1024-1027; cf. Book of Proverbs 28:13

χάρις χάριν γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τίκτουσ᾽ ἀεί
ὅτου δ᾽ ἀπορρεῖ μνῆστις εὖ πεπονθότος,
οὐκ ἂν γένοιτ᾽ ἔθ᾽ οὗτος εὐγενὴς ἀνήρ.
Fuente: Ajax, Lines 522-524

Vit. Anon, page 64 (Plumptre's Trans.).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Oedipus (Line 1079?).
Oedipus Rex
Variante: I am Fortune's child,
Not man's; her mother face hath ever smiled
Above me, and my brethren of the sky,
The changing Moons, have changed me low and high.
There is my lineage true, which none shall wrest
From me; who then am I to fear this quest?

Fuente: Ajax, Line 486

Fuente: Trachiniae, Line 592–593.

Variante: Wisdom is a curse when wisdom does nothing for the man who has it.
Fuente: Oedipus Rex, Line 316.

Fuente: Ajax, Line 964

Fuente: Trachiniae, Line 296.

Ὦ παῖ, γένοιο πατρὸς εὐτυχέστερος,
τὰ δ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ ὅμοιος: καὶ γένοι᾽ ἂν οὐ κακός
Ajax, lines 550-551; English translation by Richard Jebb
Ajax

Achilles' Loves, only surviving fragment, often quoted as "Love is like ice in the hands of children".

Teiresias (Line 332?).
Oedipus Rex
Variante: I will not wound myself nor thee. Why seek
To trap and question me? I will not speak.
Variante: Nay, I see that thou, on thy part, openest not thy lips in season: therefore I speak not, that neither may I have thy mishap.

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

Fuente: Antigone, Line 563