769 Quotes by Sophocles

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

The truth is ever best.

If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.