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Type: Poet Quotes Category: Greek Poet Quotes Year of Birth: 496 BC Year of Death: 406 BC Nationality: Greek Find on Amazon: Sophocles Related Authors: Horace Aeschylus Euripides Hesiod Homer Aristophanes Menander |
A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
Sophocles A fearful man is always hearing things. Sophocles A human being is only breath and shadow. Sophocles A lie never lives to be old. Sophocles A man growing old becomes a child again. Sophocles A short saying often contains much wisdom. Sophocles A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist. Sophocles A state is not a state if it belongs to one man. Sophocles A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife. Sophocles A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick. Sophocles A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. Sophocles Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. Sophocles All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. Sophocles All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. Sophocles Always desire to learn something useful. Sophocles Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven. Sophocles Best to live lightly, unthinkingly. Sophocles Better not to exist than live basely. Sophocles But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless. Sophocles But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. Sophocles Children are the anchors of a mother's life. Sophocles Despair often breeds disease. Sophocles Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly. Sophocles Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge? Sophocles Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good. Sophocles Even a poor man can receive honors. Sophocles Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. Sophocles Evil counsel travels fast. Sophocles Evil gains work their punishment. Sophocles Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. Sophocles For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that. Sophocles For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds. Sophocles For the dead there are no more toils. Sophocles For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night. Sophocles For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. Sophocles Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing. Sophocles 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. Sophocles God's dice always have a lucky roll. Sophocles Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth. Sophocles He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life. Sophocles Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all. Sophocles How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. Sophocles How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time. Sophocles Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is. Sophocles I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow. Sophocles I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow. Sophocles I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. Sophocles I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely. Sophocles If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. Sophocles If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free. Sophocles If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too. Sophocles If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice." Sophocles If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright. Sophocles If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. Sophocles Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. Sophocles In a just cause the weak will beat the strong. Sophocles Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies? Sophocles 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. Sophocles It is best to live however one can be. Sophocles It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. Sophocles It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. Sophocles It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune. Sophocles It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. Sophocles It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong. Sophocles It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do. Sophocles Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness. Sophocles Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected. Sophocles Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always. Sophocles Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him. Sophocles Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. Sophocles Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution. Sophocles 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. Sophocles Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. Sophocles Much wisdom often goes with brevity of speech. Sophocles Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. Sophocles No enemy is worse than bad advice. Sophocles No lie ever reaches old age. Sophocles No man loves the bearer of bad tidings. Sophocles No one longs to live more than someone growing old. Sophocles No one who errs unwillingly is evil. Sophocles No speech can stain what is noble by nature. Sophocles No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat. Sophocles Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed. Sophocles Not even Ares battles against necessity. Sophocles Not even old age knows how to love death. Sophocles Not knowing anything is the sweetest life. Sophocles Not to be born is, past all prizing, best. Sophocles Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day. Sophocles Old age and the passage of time teach all things. Sophocles One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. Sophocles One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. Sophocles One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. Sophocles Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. Sophocles Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. Sophocles Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. Sophocles Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. Sophocles Reason is God's crowning gift to man. Sophocles Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. Sophocles Silence is an ornament for women. Sophocles Success is dependent on effort. Sophocles The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. Sophocles The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. Sophocles The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. Sophocles The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water. Sophocles The rewards of virtue alone abide secure. Sophocles There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick. Sophocles There is a point at which even justice does injury. Sophocles There is a time when even justice brings harm. Sophocles There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad. Sophocles There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune. Sophocles There is no greater evil than anarchy. Sophocles There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled? Sophocles There is no success without hardship. Sophocles There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. Sophocles There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. Sophocles There is nothing more hateful than bad advice. Sophocles There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. Sophocles Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure. Sophocles Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. Sophocles Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day. Sophocles To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task. Sophocles To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it. Sophocles To him who is in fear everything rustles. Sophocles To live without evil belongs only to the gods. Sophocles Trust dies but mistrust blossoms. Sophocles War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always. Sophocles What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? Sophocles When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. Sophocles When trouble ends even troubles please. Sophocles Who seeks shall find. Sophocles Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool. Sophocles Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. Sophocles Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain? Sophocles Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. Sophocles Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere. Sophocles Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty. Sophocles Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession. Sophocles Wisdom is the most important part of happiness. Sophocles Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles Wisdom outweighs any wealth. Sophocles Wise thinkers prevail everywhere. Sophocles Without labor nothing prospers. Sophocles You should not consider a man's age but his acts. Sophocles You win the victory when you yield to friends. Sophocles |
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