Quotes By Sophocles

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Silence is an ornament for women.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

No lie ever reaches old age.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.