769 Quotes by Sophocles

Silence gives the proper grace to women

It is hope that maintains most of mankind.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.

Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

For kindness begets kindness evermore,But he from whose mind fades the memoryOf benefits, noble is he no more.

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.