Sophocles – 49 Quotes

49 Quotes by Sophocles

Who seeks shall find.

– Sophocles

No lie ever reaches old age.

– Sophocles

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

– Sophocles

Success is dependent on effort.

– Sophocles

Evil gains work their punishment.

– Sophocles

Silence is an ornament for women.

– Sophocles

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

– Sophocles

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

– Sophocles

God’s dice always have a lucky roll.

– Sophocles

Reason is God’s crowning gift to man.

– Sophocles

There is no success without hardship.

– Sophocles

It is best to live however one can be.

– Sophocles

A man growing old becomes a child again.

– Sophocles

Always desire to learn something useful.

– Sophocles

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

– Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

– Sophocles

Not even old age knows how to love death.

– Sophocles

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

– Sophocles

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

– Sophocles

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

– Sophocles

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

– Sophocles

Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.

– Sophocles

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

– Sophocles

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

– Sophocles

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

– Sophocles

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

– Sophocles

You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.

– Sophocles

To be doing good deeds is man’s most glorious task.

– Sophocles

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

– Sophocles

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

– Sophocles

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

– Sophocles

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

– Sophocles

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

– Sophocles

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

– Sophocles

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

– Sophocles

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

– Sophocles

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

– Sophocles

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

– Sophocles

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

– Sophocles

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

– Sophocles

Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

– Sophocles

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

– Sophocles

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

– 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

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

– 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 raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

– Sophocles

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

– 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