Quotes by Sophocles
There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
Not even old age knows how to love death.
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
There is no success without hardship.
Who seeks shall find.
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Success is dependent on effort.
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Better not to exist than live basely.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
Silence is an ornament for women.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
It is best to live however one can be.
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
