Sophocles Quotes - Page 8

A mind at peace does not engender wars.

They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

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.

Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory.

If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.

Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.

Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.