769 Quotes by Sophocles

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?