Top 453 Quotes & Sayings by Sophocles - Page 3
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Not even old age knows how to love death.
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
There is a time when even justice brings harm.
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
It is best to live however one can be.
A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
Better not to exist than live basely.
What you can't enforce, do not command.
Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
No honest man will argue on every side
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
Always desire to learn something useful
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
The truth is always the strongest argument.
A fearful man is always hearing things.
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
The happiest life is to be without thought
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Kindness will always attract kindness.
You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
What people believe prevails over the truth.
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
What greater wound is there than a false friend?
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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