Sophocles Quotes About Pride

• Todos los hombres cometen errores, pero un buen hombre cede cuando sabe que su proceder es erróneo, y repara el mal. El único delito es el orgullo.

  Sófocles

  Error, Carácter, Orgullo

  Sófocles (1977). "El ciclo de Edipo: An English Version", Harcourt

• The tyrant is a child of pride.

  Sófocles

  Children, Pride, Tyrants

  Sophocles (1949). “The Oedipus Cycles”

• The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

  Sófocles

  Children, Pride, Vanity

  Sófocles (1977). "El ciclo de Edipo: An English Version", Harcourt

• Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.

  Sófocles

  Pride, Proud, Tongue

• When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.

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  Pride, Boys, Doors

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.59, Harvard University Press

• Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.

  Sófocles

  Wisdom, Pride, Men

  Sophocles, Edward Hayes PLUMPTRE (Dean of Wells.) (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre”, p.177

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