Quotes from Sophocles

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

What men have seen they know. . . .

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

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

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.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

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

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

Kids are anchors of mothers' life

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

Opportunity has power over all things.