Sophocles quotes

“Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.”

— Sophocles

“No one who errs unwillingly is evil.”

— Sophocles

“No speech can stain what is noble by nature. ”

— Sophocles

“Old age and the passage of time teach all things.”

— Sophocles

“It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm. ”

— Sophocles

“Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.”

— Sophocles

“All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.”

— Sophocles

“For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.”

— Sophocles

“It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.”

— Sophocles

“Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.”

— Sophocles

“You win the victory when you yield to friends.”

— Sophocles

“It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.”

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

“To live without evil belongs only to the gods. ”

— Sophocles

“Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.”

— Sophocles

“Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.”

— Sophocles

“Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.”

— Sophocles

“Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.”

— Sophocles