Quotes By Sophocles

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.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

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

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.

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.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Evil counsel travels fast.

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

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

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

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

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

There is no success without hardship.

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

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.

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.

Always desire to learn something useful.

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