Wealth Quotes by Sophocles

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

— Sophocles

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

— Sophocles

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

— Sophocles

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

— Sophocles

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

— Sophocles

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

— Sophocles

I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters…

— Sophocles

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things…

— Sophocles

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

— Sophocles

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or…

— Sophocles

The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the…

— Sophocles

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in…

— Sophocles

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is…

— Sophocles

We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal.…

— Sophocles

“Look well at this, and speak no towering word             yourself against the gods, nor walk too grandly             because your hand…

— Sophocles