Quotes from Sophocles

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

Kindness will always attract kindness.

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

The only crime is pride.

Knowledge must come through action.

What you can't enforce, do not command.

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

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

Always desire to learn something useful

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

A lie never lives to be old.