Ancient-greece Quotes

OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no m...

JOCASTA:So clear in this case were the oracles,so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;what God...

CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles a...

TEIRESIAS:I tell you, king, this man, this murderer(whom you have long declared you are in search of...

TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom whenit brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew w...

TEIRESIAS:You have your eyes but see not where you arein sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live ...

OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many...

I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the o...

In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One ca...

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glit...

The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact th...

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which th...

It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.