71 Sophocles Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sophocles

Greek Poet

Died: 406 BC

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Related authors: Aeschylus Archilochus Aristophanes Euripides Hesiod Homer Menander Pindar

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. Sophocles

Honor Fraud Rather Fail Than Succeed

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. Sophocles

Life Mother Anchors Mother's Day Children Hold

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. Sophocles

Wisdom Unsafe Quick Decisions

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

Win Honor Cheating Would Fail Than Prefer Even

Without labor nothing prospers. Sophocles

Nothing Prospers Without Labor

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure. Sophocles

Unjust Secure Fraud Through Never Gained Things

Who seeks shall find. Sophocles

Find Seeks Shall Who

There is no success without hardship. Sophocles

Success Without Hardship

Old age and the passage of time teach all things. Sophocles

Time Age Old Old Age All Things Passage Teach Things

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. Sophocles

Money Sweet Profit Deception Even

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles

Happiness Wisdom Part Supreme

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

Man Every See Blind Off Far Near Things Every Man

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

Good Man Good Man Those Misfortune Task Help

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat. Sophocles

Impediment Cheat Ever Treaty

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms. Sophocles

Trust Mistrust Blossoms Dies

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected. Sophocles

You Will Find Look Go

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

All Things Bear Still Up Child Heaven Mighty Who Zeus Things

A man growing old becomes a child again. Sophocles

Man Age Old Becomes Child Again Growing Growing Old

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. Sophocles

Witness Powerful Terrible Within Accuser Dwells Which Us Conscience

No lie ever reaches old age. Sophocles

Age Lie Old Old Age Ever

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all. Sophocles

Time Hide Nothing Sees Hears Which

There is no greater evil than anarchy. Sophocles

Evil Anarchy Greater Greater Evil Than

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. Sophocles

Man Fear Word No Fear Feels Does Frighten Acting Who

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing. Sophocles

Nothing Aid Those Cannot Fortune Who

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

Wise Man Wise Man Mind Sick Chatter Does Whose

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