Chorus in "Oedipus Rex"
"...mortal man must always look to his ending. And none can be called happy until that day when he carries his happiness down to the grave in peace".
"...mortal man must always look to his ending. And none can be called happy until that day when he carries his happiness down to the grave in peace".
"Would any man exchange
A quiet life , with a royal rank assured,
For an uneasy throne?
To be a king, in name, was never part of my ambition;
Enough for me to live a kingly life".
"...that a blighted spring makes a barren year, and the vernal flowers, however beautiful and gay, are only intended by nature as preparatives to autumnal fruits."
"You, who govern public affairs! What
need have you to employ punishment? Love
virtue, and the people will be virtuous. The
virtues of a superior man are like the wind,
the virtues of a common man are like the
grass; the grass, when the wind passes over
it, bends."
To get a woman's heart, a man first must use his own.
You see things as they are and ask "why?". I dream things as they never were and ask "why not?"
There are only to ways to live your life:One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it; But Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that...because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it; but, Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody, when Nobody did what Anybody could have done!