769 Quotes by Sophocles

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

What you can't enforce, do not command.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.

There is no success without hardship.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

When trouble ends even troubles please.

You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.