Sophocles Greek Poet Quotations

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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.

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

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

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.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

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

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Much wisdom often goes with brevity of speech.