Sophocles Quotes, Thoughts and images

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

The Most beautiful human deed is to be useful to others.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

Who seeks shall find.

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

A fearful man is always hearing things.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

Opinions have greater power than the strength of hands.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

A lie never lives to be old.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality, and then in retrospect.

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Time alone reveals the just man, but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

Knowledge must come through action.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.