769 Quotes by Sophocles

Everything is ideal to its parent.

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

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.

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.