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Sophocles [-496--406] Greek

Rank: 11
Poet, Tragedian

Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides.

Wisdom, Age, Happiness, Money, Alone, Chance, Fear, God, Good, Love, Motivational, Success, Time, Best, Death, Friendship, Intelligence, Knowledge, Life, Mother's Day, Nature, Sad, Trust, War, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
Success is dependent on effort.	Success	101
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.	Life	102
Who seeks shall find.	Motivational	103
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.	Love	104
There is no success without hardship.	Success	105
Not even old age knows how to love death.	Age, Death, Love	106
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.	Wisdom	107
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.	Wisdom	108
There is a point at which even justice does injury.		109
Without labor nothing prospers.	Work	110
To him who is in fear everything rustles.	Fear	111
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.		112
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.	Good	113
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.		114
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.		115
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.	Good	116
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.	Sad	117
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.		118
There is no greater evil than anarchy.		119
A man growing old becomes a child again.	Age	120
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.		121
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.		122
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.	Money	123
Even a poor man can receive honors.		124
Always desire to learn something useful.	Motivational	125
God's dice always have a lucky roll.	Chance, God	126
A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.		201
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.		202
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.	Nature	203
You win the victory when you yield to friends.	Friendship	204
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.	Wisdom	205
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.	Best	206
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.	Happiness, Wisdom	207
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.		208
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.		209
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.		210
No one longs to live more than someone growing old.		211
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.		212
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.		213
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.	Wisdom	214
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.	Fear	215
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.		216
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.	Age, Time	217
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.	Time	218
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.	Money	219
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.		220
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.		221
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.	Mother's Day	222
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.	Happiness, Wisdom	223
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.		224
Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.	Trust	225
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.		226
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.		301
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.	Alone	302
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.		303
Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.		304
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.	Knowledge	305
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.		306
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.		307
When trouble ends even troubles please.		308
Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?		309
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.	Happiness	310
No enemy is worse than bad advice.		311
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.		312
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.		313
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.		314
There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.		315
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.		316
A human being is only breath and shadow.		317
No lie ever reaches old age.		318
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.	Alone	319
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.		320
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.	Chance, War	321
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.		322
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.		323
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.		324
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.		325
Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.		326
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?		401
Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.		402
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.		403
If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.		404
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.		405
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.		406
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.		407
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.		408
If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.		409
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.		410
No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.		411
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.		412
For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.		413
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.		414
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.	Money	415
A short saying often contains much wisdom.	Wisdom	416
Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?		417
Silence is an ornament for women.		418
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.		419
A lie never lives to be old.		420
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'		421
For the dead there are no more toils.		422
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.		423
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.		424
How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.		425
Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.		426
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.		501
Despair often breeds disease.		502
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.		503
I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.		504
Evil gains work their punishment.		505
Not even Ares battles against necessity.		506
Better not to exist than live basely.		507
There is a time when even justice brings harm.		508
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?		509
No one who errs unwillingly is evil.		510
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.		511
You should not consider a man's age but his acts.		512
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.		513
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.		514
I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.		515
For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.		516
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?		517
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.		518
Evil counsel travels fast.		519
A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.		520
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.		521
The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.		522
Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.		523
It is best to live however one can be.		524
Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.		525
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.	Intelligence	526
It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.		601
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.		602
It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.		603
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.		604
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.		605
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.	God	606
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.		607
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.		608
Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.		609
To live without evil belongs only to the gods.		610

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