Sophocles Quotes
Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.
Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.
Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.
Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.
One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.
Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.
The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.
No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?
No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.
Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.
The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.
The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself
Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
