Sophocles Quotes

One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.

Seize the hour.

Why should a man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can unthinking.

Success is dependent on effort.

Closer, it’s all right. Touch the man of grief.Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.

No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

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

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Always desire to learn something useful.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

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

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