Sophocles famous quotes

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
-- Sophocles

#Mother #Children #Silly

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
-- Sophocles

#Love #Life #Wedding

Who seeks shall find.
-- Sophocles

#Motivational

Kindness gives birth to kindness.
-- Sophocles

#Kindness #Giving #Birth

What greater wound is there than a false friend?
-- Sophocles

#False Friends #Wounds

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
-- Sophocles

#Love You #Deeds #Matter

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.
-- Sophocles

#Mistake #Pride #Men

What people believe prevails over the truth.
-- Sophocles

#Believe #People #Belief

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
-- Sophocles

#Honesty #Honor #Succeed

No man loves life like him that's growing old.
-- Sophocles

#Love Life #Men #Age

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

#Work #Men #Acting

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
-- Sophocles

#Found

Always desire to learn something useful
-- Sophocles

#Desire #Saving #Investment

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
-- Sophocles

#Strong #Causes #Weak

I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
-- Sophocles

#Beer #Vegetables #Bread

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
-- Sophocles

#Education #Wise #Teaching

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
-- Sophocles

#Wise #Men #Advice

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
-- Sophocles

#Sides #Fortune #Hearted

Without labor nothing prospers.
-- Sophocles

#Work #Labor

There is no success without hardship.
-- Sophocles

#Success #Hardship

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
-- Sophocles

#Mind #Body #Coping

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
-- Sophocles

#Kindness

The happiest life is to be without thought
-- Sophocles

#Life Is

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

#Hate #Men #Brave

None love the messenger who brings bad news.
-- Sophocles

#Love #Messengers #News

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
-- Sophocles

#Men #Good Man #Tasks

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
-- Sophocles

#Men #Blind

Success, remember is the reward of toil.
-- Sophocles

#Success #Rewards #Toil

Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
-- Sophocles

#Grief #Sorrow #Gentle

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
-- Sophocles

#Gratitude #Giving #Birth

Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
-- Sophocles

#Hard Work #Past #Today

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
-- Sophocles

#Sight #Judging #Deeds

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
-- Sophocles

#Advice #Hateful

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
-- Sophocles

#Grief #Worry #Causes

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
-- Sophocles

#Judging

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
-- Sophocles

#Sweet #Forget #Misfortunes

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
-- Sophocles

#Helping Others #Luck #Needs

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
-- Sophocles

#Kindness #Real #Accepting

Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
-- Sophocles

#Mind #Today #Care

Opportunity has power over all things.
-- Sophocles

#Opportunity #Belief

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
-- Sophocles

#Men #Likes #News

The truth is always the strongest argument.
-- Sophocles

#Truth #Argument #Truth Is

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
-- Sophocles

#Adversity #Sorrow #Causes

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
-- Sophocles

#Men #May #Chance

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
-- Sophocles

#Men #States

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
-- Sophocles

#Lying #Men #Hands

No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.
-- Sophocles

#Sight #Darkness #Deeds

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
-- Sophocles

#Decision #Quick Decisions

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
-- Sophocles

#Time #All Time

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
-- Sophocles

#War #Fate #Ships

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
-- Sophocles

#Luxury #House #Excellence

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
-- Sophocles

#Happy #Way

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
-- Sophocles

#Reality #Suffering #Desire

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
-- Sophocles

#Secret

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
-- Sophocles

#Wise #Wisdom #Men

Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
-- Sophocles

#Life #Live Life #Giving

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
-- Sophocles

#Nurse #Evil #Soul

Kindness begets kindness evermore.
-- Sophocles

#Kindness #Evermore

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
-- Sophocles

#Halloween #Dark #Clouds

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
-- Sophocles

#Friendship #Friends #Kindness

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
-- Sophocles

#Littles #Eternity #Please

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.
-- Sophocles

#Home #Men #Cities

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
-- Sophocles

#Inspirational

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
-- Sophocles

#Motivational #Aids #Fortune

A mind at peace does not engender wars.
-- Sophocles

#War #Mind #Doe

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
-- Sophocles

#Pain #Fate #Evil

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.
-- Sophocles

#Speak #Dishonor

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.
-- Sophocles

#Deeds #Ends #Wells

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
-- Sophocles

#Strength #Hands

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach
-- Sophocles

#Men #Intuition #Would Be

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
-- Sophocles

#Acting #Tests #Trials

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
-- Sophocles

#Grief #Sadness #Sorrow

Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
-- Sophocles

#Opportunity #Captains #Endeavor

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
-- Sophocles

#Pain #Suffering #Remember

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
-- Sophocles

#Grief #Grieving #Mind

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
-- Sophocles

#Unjust #Fraud

It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
-- Sophocles

#Return #Born

A lie never lives to be old.
-- Sophocles

#Lying

A man growing old becomes a child again.
-- Sophocles

#Children #Men #Age

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
-- Sophocles

#Loyalty

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
-- Sophocles

#Life #Cheating #Failure

A short saying often contains much wisdom.
-- Sophocles

#Success #Motivation

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
-- Sophocles

#Speech #Speak #Terrible

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
-- Sophocles

#Wickedness #Foolishness

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

#Liars #Men #Reflection

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
-- Sophocles

#Speech #Wells

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
-- Sophocles

#Thinking #Knowing #Not Knowing

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
-- Sophocles

#Fall #Gambling #Dice

You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
-- Sophocles

#Regret #Hate #Anger

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

#Men #Evil #Fortune

Ill-gotten gains work evil.
-- Sophocles

#Evil #Gains #Ill

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came
-- Sophocles

#Light #Speech #Second Best

Success is the reward for toil.
-- Sophocles

#Toil #Rewards #Classroom

How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
-- Sophocles

#Decision #Dangerous #Prove

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

#Grief #Men #Suffering

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
-- Sophocles

#Mad #Insanity #Firsts

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
-- Sophocles

#Men #Hands #Excellence

What men have seen they know. . . .
-- Sophocles

#Men #Know Me

The tyrant is a child of pride.
-- Sophocles

#Children #Pride #Tyrants

Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
-- Sophocles

#Pride #Proud #Tongue