Quotes from Sophocles

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

How dangerous can false reasoning prove!

Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

A mind at peace does not engender wars.

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Who seeks shall find.

One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

Seize the hour.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself, and no one else, has made it.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.