Sophocles Quotes (225 Quotes)

Knowledge must come through action you can have no test, which is not fanciful save by trial.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

It is hope which maintains most of mankind.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

No oath too binding for a lover.

Silence is an ornament for women.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

Truth is always straightforward.

Dark, dark The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Despair often breeds disease.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not

The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Life is short but sweet.

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life that word is love.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.