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“Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”
Sophocles
“All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.”
Sophocles
“Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.”
Sophocles
“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
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.”
Sophocles
“There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.”
Sophocles
“Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.”
Sophocles
“A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.”
Sophocles
“A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.”
Sophocles
“Wisdom outweighs any wealth.”
Sophocles
“There is no success without hardship.”
Sophocles
“It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.”
Sophocles
“Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.”
Sophocles
“Better not to exist than live basely.”
Sophocles
“A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.”
Sophocles
“You should not consider a man's age but his acts.”
Sophocles
“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
Sophocles
“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”
Sophocles
“When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse”
Sophocles
“Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.”
Sophocles
“If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.”
Sophocles
“Without labor nothing prospers.”
Sophocles
“No enemy is worse than bad advice.”
Sophocles
“Reason is God's crowning gift to man.”
Sophocles
“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”
Sophocles
“A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.”
Sophocles
“But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.”
Sophocles
“Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.”
Sophocles
“Even a poor man can receive honors.”
Sophocles
“Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.”
Sophocles
