769 Quotes by Sophocles

Shall we not perish wretchedest of all, If in defiance of the law we cross A monarch’s will? – weak women, think of that, Not framed by nature to contend with men. Remember.

Ah! terrible is knowledge to the man Whom knowledge profits not.

There is a kind of excellence in me and you – born in us – and it cannot live in shame.

Oft we know not till we see. Weak is human prophecy. Judge not, till the hour have taught thee What the destinies have brought thee.

Comply, and fear not, for my load of woe Is incommunicable to all but me.

What you can’t enforce, do not command.

And the dead man will hate thee too, with cause. Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death.

You cannot know a man’s life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

I was born to join in love, not hate – that is my nature.