769 Quotes by Sophocles

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

No wound is worse than counterfeited love.

For the dead there are no more toils.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.