Quotes

“God's dice always have a lucky roll.” Sophocles

“Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.” Sophocles

“Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?” Sophocles

“Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.” Sophocles

“But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.” Sophocles

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

“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.” Sophocles

“A lie never lives to be old.” Sophocles

“There is a point at which even justice does injury.” Sophocles

“To him who is in fear everything rustles.” Sophocles

“For the dead there are no more toils.” Sophocles

“To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.” Sophocles

“Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.” Sophocles

“There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?” Sophocles

“In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.” Sophocles

“The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.” Sophocles

“It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.” Sophocles

“Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.” Sophocles

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

“Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.” Sophocles

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

“There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.” Sophocles

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

“There is no greater evil than anarchy.” Sophocles

“There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.” 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.” Sophocles

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

“I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.” Sophocles

“To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.” Sophocles

“A human being is only breath and shadow.” Sophocles