Quotes By Sophocles

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.

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

Evil gains work their punishment.

Always desire to learn something useful.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

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.