Sophocles Quotes

War loves to seek its victims in the young.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

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.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.

To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part.

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

To women silence gives their proper grace.

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

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

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

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

No honest man will argue on every side

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

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

No oath can be too binding for a lover.

As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!

All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.

Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.

To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

Kindness will always attract kindness.

Love, you mock us for your sport.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.