Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

by Sophocles

Oh it’s terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

I was born to join in love, not hate – that is my nature.

I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.

Show me the man who rules his household well: I’ll show you someone fit to rule the state.

All men make mistakes, it is only human. But once the wrong is done, a man can turn his back on folly, misfortune too, if he tries to make amends, however low he’s fallen, and stops his bullnecked ways.

Creon shows the world that of all the ills afflicting men the worst is lack of judgment.

The future rests with the ones who tend the future.

The mighty words of the proud are paid in full with mighty blows of fate, and at long last those blows will teach us wisdom.