Quotes from Sophocles

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

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

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

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

Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.

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

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

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

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

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.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part.

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

No honest man will argue on every side

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

You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.