Sophocles Quotes

Sophocles
Sophocles
Greek Poet
Died: 406 BC
Even Good Live Man Men You
Related authors: Aeschylus Archilochus Aristophanes Euripides Hesiod Homer Menander Pindar
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. Sophocles
Tears Valuable Valuable Thing Evils Possible Would Would-Be Weeping Dead Were Cure Than Gold Lamentation Then Less Thing Raise
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life. Sophocles
Life Bad Throws He His Friend Who Away
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. Sophocles
Kindness Better Will Possession Knows Accept How Friend Than Any Show Who
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness. Sophocles
Kindness Ever
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. Sophocles
Nature Man Own Does Leaves His Disgust Unfit
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. Sophocles
Wisdom Words Goes Fewest Often Much
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. Sophocles
Gratitude Dead How Proved Off Quick Quickly Owed Deceiver Alas Flows
No enemy is worse than bad advice. Sophocles
Enemy Advice Worse Bad Than
God's dice always have a lucky roll. Sophocles
God Always Dice Roll Lucky Chance
I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely. Sophocles
Day Win Mark Would Rather Miss Well Than Acting
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty. Sophocles
Alone Mind Men Seen Others Possesses Above He Empty Whoever Thinks Speech
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. Sophocles
Future Lost Past Young Neglects He Dead Arts Whoever
Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere. Sophocles
Country Important Rate More Him His Friend Than Whoever Nowhere Thinks
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. Sophocles
Life Words Care My Life More Make Than Deeds Illustrious
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. Sophocles
One Thing Another Well-Timed Much Thing Speech
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. Sophocles
Words Pleasure Some Miseries Forgetfulness Even Present Bring
You win the victory when you yield to friends. Sophocles
Friendship You Win Victory Friends Yield
I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow. Sophocles
Nothing Live See Shadow Us Who Images
Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth. Sophocles
Gratitude Birth Gives Always
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. Sophocles
Happiness Man Lost Corpse Alive He Call Him Breathing
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. Sophocles
Truth Knowledge Dreadful How Help
There is a point at which even justice does injury. Sophocles
Justice Point Does Which Even Injury
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. Sophocles
Good Plant Gifts Highest Gods Mankind Reason
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. Sophocles
Man Become Evils He Wishes Affairs Cure Diseased
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him. Sophocles
Men Before See Seeing Prophet Know Him Nor Waits End May Many Event Things
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. Sophocles
Truth Good News Good News Impart General Conceal Merit
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