Top 453 Quotes & Sayings by Sophocles - Page 7

Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

There are times when even justice brings harm with it.

Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.

If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Silence gives the proper grace to women

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.

Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune.

Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world

As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see.

Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.

For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.

More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.

No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part.

It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.

Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

War loves to seek its victims in the young.

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.

When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.

Kids are anchors of mothers' life

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.

Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer.

Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.

Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.

Great Time makes all things dim.

There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.

When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

Time is a kindly God.

To him who is afraid, everything rustles.

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

Everything is ideal to its parent.