Quotes

“Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.” Sophocles

“For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.” Sophocles

“Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.” Sophocles

“Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?” Sophocles

“Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.” Sophocles

“A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.” Sophocles

“How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.” Sophocles

“Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.” Sophocles

“I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.” Sophocles

“If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.” Sophocles

“The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.” Sophocles

“Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.” Sophocles

“No one longs to live more than someone growing old.” Sophocles

“Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?” Sophocles

“If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.” Sophocles

“Evil counsel travels fast.” Sophocles

“No lie ever reaches old age.” Sophocles

“Despair often breeds disease.” Sophocles

“Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.” Sophocles

“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