{"author":"Sophocles","author_id":"Sophocles","total_quotes":138,"quotes":[{"text":"A city which belongs to just one man is no true city.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["freedom","tyranny"],"id":333,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["pain"],"id":1666,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone.' - Sentry.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["angry","angry-bird","antigone","bird","birds-nest","girl","little-ones","nest","screaming","screaming-girl","sentry","sophocles","the-theban-plays"],"id":3862,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"Reason is God's crowning gift to man, and you are rightTo warn me against losing mine. I cannot say—I hope that I shall never want to say!— that youHave reasoned badly. Yet there are other menWho can reason, too; and their opinions might be helpful.You are not in a position to know everythingThat people say or do, or what they feel:Your temper terrifies them—everyoneWill tell you only what you like to hear.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["knowledge","pride","reason"],"id":4840,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["time"],"id":7826,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!","author":"Sophocles","tags":["justice","oedipus-at-colonus"],"id":9140,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["mistrust","blossoms","dies "],"id":13128,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more after today!I who first saw the light bred of a matchaccursed, and accursed in my livingwith them I lived with, cursed in my killing.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["ancient-greece","sophocles","tragedy"],"id":19284,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["antigone","reason","sophocles"],"id":20726,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"Who seeks shall find.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["find","who","shall "],"id":23307,"author_id":"Sophocles"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":138,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}