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 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