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Teiresias Quotes
Seven of the best book quotes from Teiresias
01
″...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
Antigone
book
Creon
ᐧ
Teiresias
characters
pride
concept
02
“Thou art the man, Thou the accursed polluter of this land.”
Sophocles
author
Oedipus the King
book
Teiresias
character
kings
ᐧ
accusations
ᐧ
guilt
concepts
03
“Yea, I am free, strong in the strength of truth.”
Sophocles
author
Oedipus the King
book
Teiresias
character
strength
ᐧ
truth
ᐧ
freedom
concepts
04
“Thou thyself art thine own bane.”
Sophocles
author
Oedipus the King
book
Teiresias
character
curse
ᐧ
blame
ᐧ
prophecy
concepts
05
“This day shall be thy birth-day, and thy grave.”
Sophocles
author
Oedipus the King
book
Teiresias
character
birthdays
ᐧ
death
ᐧ
prophecy
concepts
06
“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.”
Sophocles
author
Oedipus the King
book
Teiresias
character
misery
ᐧ
curse
ᐧ
blindness
concepts
07
“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
Antigone
book
Teiresias
character
mistakes
ᐧ
repentance
ᐧ
cures
concepts
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Creon
Haemon
Ismene
Teiresias
Oedipus
The Priest
Guard
The Chorus
pride
kings
accusations
guilt
strength
truth
freedom
curse
blame
prophecy
birthdays
death
misery
blindness
mistakes
repentance
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