769 Quotes by Sophocles

Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.

When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.