Sophocles Quotes
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you your own life than turn away a good friend.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a ...
Show MoreOur happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has m...
Show MoreAll is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.
I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mo...
Show MoreI have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness
Without labor nothing prospers.
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
Why should a man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Bes...
Show MoreTo him who is in fear everything rustles.
CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles a...
Show MoreAlas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.
For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a ...
Show MoreDo not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only h...
Show MoreThere is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.
Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the ...
Show MoreChance never helps those who do not help themselves.
May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene, A...
Show MoreWisdom is the most important part of happiness.
Who seeks shall find.
Not even old age knows how to love death.
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Prefiero, señor, obrar bien y fracasar, antes que triunfar con malas artes.Palabras de Neoptólemo a ...
Show MoreChildren are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Success is dependent on effort.
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love.
One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try...
Show MoreYou must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater.That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes,Tem...
Show MoreWe have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life
There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,When it finds its nest left empt and little ones go...
Show MoreMay the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene
Hail the sun! the brightest of all that everDawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes!Hail t...
Show MoreI didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But becau...
Show MoreHaemon: No city is property of a single man.Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.Haemon: ...
Show MoreThe powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war, not with a ...
Show MoreSister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?
No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
I am determined that never, if I can help it,Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon
A city which belongs to just one man is no true city
And also because - Oh, my darling, my darling, forgive me; I’m going to cause you quite a lot of pai...
Show MoreAll men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil...
Show MoreShall not ILearn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,Only so much to hate my enemy,As though h...
Show MoreWhich would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friendsor a share in their gr...
Show MoreIf you try to cure evil with evilyou will add more pain to your fate.
Silence is an ornament for women.
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
TEIRESIAS:I tell you, king, this man, this murderer(whom you have long declared you are in search of...
Show MoreA soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom whenit brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew w...
Show MoreWhoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded suc...
Show MoreHeaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.
Seize the hour.
The only crime is pride.
How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
There is no success without hardship.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Those swift to think are not always secure.
God's dice always have a lucky roll.
No lie ever reaches old age.
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Time is a kindly god.
Best to live lightly unthinkingly.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
To throw away an honest friend is as it were to throw your life away.
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
TEIRESIAS:You have your eyes but see not where you arein sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live ...
Show MoreOEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many...
Show MoreIn a just cause the weak will beat the strong!
