Sophocles quotes

“Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.”

— Sophocles

“Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.”

— Sophocles

“Silence is an ornament for women.”

— Sophocles

“Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.”

— Sophocles

“Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.”

— Sophocles

“Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession. ”

— Sophocles

“Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.”

— Sophocles

“The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.”

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

“Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth. ”

— Sophocles

“If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.”

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

“It is best to live however one can be. ”

— Sophocles

“It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.”

— Sophocles

“Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.”

— Sophocles

“I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.”

— Sophocles

“Evil gains work their punishment.”

— Sophocles

“Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.”

— Sophocles

“No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.”

— Sophocles

“Not even Ares battles against necessity.”

— Sophocles

“Not even old age knows how to love death.”

— Sophocles

“When trouble ends even troubles please.”

— Sophocles

“If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.”

— Sophocles

“For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.”

— Sophocles

“There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.”

— Sophocles

“There is a time when even justice brings harm.”

— Sophocles

“It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong. ”

— Sophocles

“No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.”

— Sophocles

“A fearful man is always hearing things.”

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles