Quotes by Sophocles

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

Success is dependent on effort.

— Sophocles

Success

Who seeks shall find.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

— Sophocles

Happiness

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

— Sophocles

Life

Always desire to learn something useful.

— Sophocles

Education

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

There is no success without hardship.

— Sophocles

Success

A human being is only breath and shadow.

— Sophocles

Life

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

A man growing old becomes a child again.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

— Sophocles

Friendship

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

Without labor nothing prospers.

— Sophocles

Wisdom

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

— Sophocles

Wisdom