Sophocles Quotes - Page 11

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

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

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

No oath can be too binding for a lover.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape

Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

Obedience to authority saves many skins

Truth is always straightforward.

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

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

Time is a kindly God.