Quotes Sophocles

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things....

A fearful man is always hearing things....

A human being is only breath and shadow....

A lie never lives to be old....

A man growing old becomes a child again....

A short saying often contains much wisdom....

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than ...

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man....

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that ...

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick....

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fe...

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, ...

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure e...

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does wha...

Always desire to learn something useful....

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs al...

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly....

Better not to exist than live basely....

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies ar...

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you ...

Children are the anchors of a mother's life....

Despair often breeds disease....

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

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?...

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good....