Quotes from Sophocles

Even a poor man can receive honors.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

For the dead there are no more toils.

Time is a kindly god.

Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

Great Time makes all things dim.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

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

They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

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

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Truth is always straightforward.

Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

Love is like ice in the hands of children.

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.