Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
By Sophocles
Always desire to learn something useful.
By Sophocles
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
By Sophocles
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
By Sophocles
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
By Sophocles
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
By Sophocles
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
By Sophocles
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
By Sophocles
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
By Sophocles
A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
By Sophocles
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
By Sophocles
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
By Sophocles
A man growing old becomes a child again.
By Sophocles
A fearful man is always hearing things.
By Sophocles
Better not to exist than live basely.
By Sophocles
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
By Sophocles
For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
By Sophocles
For money, you would sell your soul.
By Sophocles
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
By Sophocles
I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
By Sophocles
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
By Sophocles
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
By Sophocles
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
By Sophocles
Not even old age knows how to love death.
By Sophocles
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
By Sophocles
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
By Sophocles
It is best to live however one can be.
By Sophocles
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
By Sophocles
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
By Sophocles
