Quotes By Sophocles

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

Without labor nothing prospers.

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.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

Evil counsel travels fast.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

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.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

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.

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

Always desire to learn something useful.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

There is no success without hardship.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.