Quotes by Sophocles
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
There is no greater evil than anarchy.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
When trouble ends even troubles please.
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
A human being is only breath and shadow.
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.
Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
For the dead there are no more toils.
