Quotes by Sophocles
Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
A fearful man is always hearing things.
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
Evil counsel travels fast.
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
