Quotes by Sophocles
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
Without labor nothing prospers.
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
No enemy is worse than bad advice.
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
No lie ever reaches old age.
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
Despair often breeds disease.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
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.
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
