Sophocles quotes

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

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Who seeks shall find.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

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.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

There is no success without hardship.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

Without labor nothing prospers.

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

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Always desire to learn something useful.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Silence is an ornament for women.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

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.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.