Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul’s life is gone.
—Sophocles
Topics: Suicide
I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news.
—Sophocles
Topics: News
Everything is ideal to its parent.
—Sophocles
Topics: Family
Seize the hour.
—Sophocles
Topics: Value of a Day, Time Management
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
—Sophocles
Topics: Silence
There is no success without hardship.
—Sophocles
Topics: Success
For the dead there are no more toils.
—Sophocles
Topics: Dying, Death
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
—Sophocles
Topics: Reason
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
—Sophocles
Topics: Fortune, Independence, Luck, Chance, Self-reliance
There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
—Sophocles
Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to
—Sophocles
Topics: Death
Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
—Sophocles
Topics: Opportunities
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
—Sophocles
Topics: Power, Leaders, Leadership
Men of ill judgment often ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
—Sophocles
Topics: Judges, Judging, Judgment, Judgement
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.
—Sophocles
Topics: Friendship
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
—Sophocles
Topics: Words
All a man’s affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
—Sophocles
Topics: Wishes
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him…
—Sophocles
Topics: Knowledge, Wonder
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
—Sophocles
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
—Sophocles
Topics: Prosperity, Success & Failure
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
—Sophocles
Topics: Success, Honesty, Honor, Character, Failure
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
—Sophocles
Topics: Wisdom
Opportunity has power over all things.
—Sophocles
Topics: Opportunities
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
—Sophocles
Topics: Wisdom
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
—Sophocles
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life
—Sophocles
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
—Sophocles
Topics: Happiness, Wisdom
If you have committed iniquity, you must expect to suffer; for vengeance with its sacred light shines upon you.
—Sophocles
Topics: Vengeance
Truth is always the strongest argument.
—Sophocles
Topics: Truth
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
—Sophocles
Topics: Kindness
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Euripides Ancient Greek Dramatist
- Heraclitus Ancient Greek Philosopher
- Xenocrates Greek Philosopher, Scientist
- Homer Ancient Greek Poet
- Epictetus Ancient Greek Philosopher
- Bias of Priene Greek Orator
- Aristotle Ancient Greek Philosopher
- Plotinus Ancient Greek Philosopher, Mystic
- Plato Ancient Greek Philosopher
- Epicurus Greek Philosopher
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