Top 453 Quotes & Sayings by Sophocles - Page 8

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

The truth is ever best.

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.

Obedience to authority saves many skins

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.

When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.

It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

False words do not bring forth fruit.

For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.

For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.

Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.

To women silence gives their proper grace.