Quotes By Sophocles

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

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

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.

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.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Evil counsel travels fast.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

Evil gains work their punishment.

Always desire to learn something useful.