Quotes By Sophocles

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.