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
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
—Sophocles
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.
—Sophocles
Success is dependent on effort.
—Sophocles
Topics: Success, Effort
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
—Sophocles
Topics: Life
If i am young and wrong, then you are right. But if i am young, and right. What does my age matter?
—Sophocles
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
—Sophocles
In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
—Sophocles
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself, and no one else, has made it.
—Sophocles
Topics: Self-reliance, Confidence, Responsibility
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
—Sophocles
Topics: Romance, Love
Heaven ne’er helps the man who will not act.
—Sophocles
Topics: Action, Acting, Heaven, Prayer
There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
—Sophocles
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
—Sophocles
Topics: Honor, Character, Success, Honesty, Failure
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
—Sophocles
Topics: Life and Living, Happiness
Men of ill judgment often ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
—Sophocles
Topics: Judgment
The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
—Sophocles
Topics: Knowledge
I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news.
—Sophocles
Topics: News
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
—Sophocles
Topics: Wisdom
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
—Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
—Sophocles
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
—Sophocles
Topics: Conscience
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.
—Sophocles
Topics: Friendship
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