Quotes By Sophocles

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Who seeks shall find.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

Despair often breeds disease.

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

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

Evil gains work their punishment.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

When trouble ends even troubles please.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

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

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."

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

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

Better not to exist than live basely.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.