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Teiresias Quotes

Seven of the best book quotes from Teiresias
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“Yea, I am free, strong in the strength of truth.”
Sophocles
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Oedipus the King
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Teiresias
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truth
freedom
strength
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“Thou thyself art thine own bane.”
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“This day shall be thy birth-day, and thy grave.”
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“Thou art the man, Thou the accursed polluter of this land.”
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“Thus then I answer: since thou hast not spared To twit me with my blindness—thou hast eyes, Yet see’st not in what misery thou art fallen.”
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“To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.”
Sophocles
author
Teiresias
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″...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.”
Sophocles
author
Creon
Teiresias
characters
pride
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