Quotes By Sophocles

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

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

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

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.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

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

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

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

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.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

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

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

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.

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