Sophocles Quotes
- There is no success without hardship.
- Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
- The truth is always the strongest argument.
- Without labor nothing prospers.
- The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
- Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
- No man loves life like him that's growing old.
- One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
- Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
- Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
- It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
- One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
- Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
- Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
- It is best to live however one can be.
- There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
- It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
- We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.
- If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
- Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.