Sophocles Quotes

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.

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

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.

Those swift to think are not always secure.

Evil gains work their punishment.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.