Sophocles Quotes - Page 9

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.

Love is like ice in the hands of children.

I write a woman's oaths in water.

To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

I was not born to share the hate, but love.

Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?

Thou shalt not ration justice.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.