Quotes from Sophocles

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

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

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

Love, you mock us for your sport.

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.

Evil gains work their punishment.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

Success is dependant on effort.

Success is dependent on effort.

Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.