Quotes from Sophocles

Time eases all things.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

A woman's vows I write upon the wave.

For kindness begets kindness evermore,But he from whose mind fades the memoryOf benefits, noble is he no more.

A remedy too strong for the disease.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Stranger in a strange country.

Silence is an ornament for women.

The immortalGods alone have neither age nor death!All other things almighty Time disquiets.

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

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

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

Athens, nurse of men.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

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.

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

I, whom proof hath taught of lateHow so far only should we hate our foesAs though we soon might love them, and so farDo a friend service as to one most likeSomeday to prove our foe, since oftenest menIn friendship but a faithless haven find.

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

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

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.