Sophocles Quotations | Page 3

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Remember there is no success without hard work.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.

For the dead there are no more toils.

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.