769 Quotes by Sophocles

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

It is not righteousness to outrage

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.

I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.

Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.