Sophocles Quotes

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.

One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

A lie never lives to be old.

Success is dependent on effort.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

There is no success without hardship.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

Without labor nothing prospers.

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

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

The end excuses any evil.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

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

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

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

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

The good befriend themselves.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

What you can't enforce, do not command.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

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

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace

Silence gives the proper grace to women

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Time is a kindly God.

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.