Top 453 Quotes & Sayings by Sophocles - Page 2
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
For the dead there are no more toils.
When trouble ends even troubles please.
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
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.
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
Evil counsel travels fast.
There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
Evil gains work their punishment.
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
No lie ever reaches old age.
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.
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.
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