Those swift to think are not always secure.

Reason is God’s crowning gift to man, and you are rightTo warn me against losing mine. I cannot say—I hope that I shall never want to say!— that youHave reasoned badly. Yet there are other...

Pues así como estoy, me voy a ir. Venid, venid, compañeros los que estáis presentes y ausentes; y con hachas en las manos corred hacia el lugar famoso. Y yo, puesto que mi opinión así...

TEIRESIAS:You have your eyes but see not where you arein sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.Do you know who your parents are? Unknowingyou are enemy to kith and kinin death, beneath...

The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see...

Sister – if all this is true, what could I do or undo?

There is no greater evil than men’s failure to consult and to consider.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life

It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.

TEIRESIAS:I tell you, king, this man, this murderer(whom you have long declared you are in search of,indicting him in threatening proclamationas murderer of Laius)- he is here.In name he is a stranger among citizensbut soon...

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.

A city which belongs to just one man is no true city

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

Without labor nothing prospers.

OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom! If with my knowledge he...

A lie never grows old.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.

Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friendsor a share in their grief?

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded laws of God.They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.I knew I must die,...

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Prefiero, señor, obrar bien y fracasar, antes que triunfar con malas artes.Palabras de Neoptólemo a Odiseo, en la tragedia griega Filoctetes.

For Time calls only once, and that determines all.

If you try to cure evil with evilyou will add more pain to your fate.

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

Shall not ILearn 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...

I didn’t say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don’t have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown...

The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.

Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

When he endures nothing but endless miseries– What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death?Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is...

The pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.

TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom whenit brings no profit to the man that’s wise!This I knew well, but had forgotten it,else I would not have come here.

The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped–not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.

Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the wrong is done, a mancan turn his back on folly, misfortune too,if he tries to make...

A sight to touch e’en hatred’s self with pity.