Quotes By Sophocles

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

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

No lie ever reaches old age.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

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

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

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.