Quotes By Sophocles

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

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

No lie ever reaches old age.

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Silence is an ornament for women.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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

It is best to live however one can be.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

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

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

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

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

Success is dependent on effort.

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.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Who seeks shall find.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Despair often breeds disease.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.