Sophocles Quotes (225 Quotes)

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Death is not the greatest of evils it is worse to want to die, and not be able to

It is best to live however one can be.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

... 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.

For money, you would sell your soul.

They command us, though they speak no words.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Always desire to learn something useful.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

If I am Sophocles, I am not mad and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

For the dead there are no more toils.

When trouble ends even troubles please.

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride power as strong as the founded world

Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

War loves to seek its victims in the young.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

If you have committed iniquity, you must expect to suffer for vengeance with its sacred light shines upon you.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.