One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
– Sophocles
War never slays a bad man in its course, but the good always!
– Sophocles
Reason is God’s crowning gift to man.
– Sophocles
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
– Sophocles
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
– Sophocles
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune’s wayward tyranny.
– Sophocles
The tyrant is a child who drinks from his great sickening cup recklessness and vanity, until
from his high crest headlong he plummets to the dust of hope.
– Sophocles
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by
trial.
– Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
– Sophocles
For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.
– Sophocles
Athens, nurse of men.
– Sophocles
No man loves life like him that’s growing old.
– Sophocles
Time eases all things.
– Sophocles
Men of ill judgement oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
– Sophocles
Anarchy! Anarchy! Show me a greater evil! This is why cities tumble and the great houses
rain down, this is what scatters armies!
– Sophocles
Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and
then to go back quickly whence we came.
– Sophocles
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs
the evil. The only crime is pride.
– Sophocles
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against love; for love rules the gods as he
will, and me.
– Sophocles
But since we are all likely to go astray, the reasonable thing is to learn from those who can
teach.
– Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
– Sophocles
But all your strength is weakness itself against the immortal unrecorded laws of God.
– Sophocles
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak
dishonorably is pardonable.
– Sophocles
Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
– Sophocles
The good befriend themselves.
– Sophocles
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
– Sophocles
For kindness begets kindness evermore, but he from whose mind fades the memory of
benefits, noble is he no more.
– Sophocles
There is no success without hardship.
– Sophocles
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in truth!
– Sophocles
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, he’s fit for public authority.
– Sophocles
Numberless are the world’s wonders, but none more wonderful than man.
– Sophocles
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
– Sophocles