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












More Sophocles quotes
"Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
"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.
"When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
"To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
"A man growing old becomes a child again.
"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
"I am determined that never, if I can help it,Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon
"Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
"The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.