Famous Quotes

Quotes by Sophocles

• A man growing old becomes a child again.
• A short saying often contains much wisdom.
• A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
• All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
• Always desire to learn something useful.
• Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
• Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
• Evil gains work their punishment.
• For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
• For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.
• Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
• God's dice always have a lucky roll.
• Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
• How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
• If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
• Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
• 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.
• It is best to live however one can be.
• It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
• Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
• Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
• 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.
• Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
• No lie ever reaches old age.
• No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
• Not even old age knows how to love death.
• Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
• Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
• Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
• Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
• Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
• Silence is an ornament for women.
• Success is dependent on effort.
• The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
• The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
• There is no success without hardship.
• Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
• Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
• To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
• To him who is in fear everything rustles.
• Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
• War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.