769 Quotes by Sophocles

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

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

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.

Silence is an ornament for women.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

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...