Quotes from Sophocles

Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

War loves to seek its victims in the young.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

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

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

A fearful man is always hearing things.