769 Quotes by Sophocles

You’re dreaming, girl, lost in a moving dream.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare – I have no use for him either.

What is God singing in his profound Delphi of gold and shadow?

For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise – that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer – such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty.

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune’s wayward tyranny.

Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer;.

To me, excessive silence seems to bode as ill as too much shouting.

Whoe’er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

Of evils current upon earth The worst is money. Money ’tis that sacks Cities, and drives men forth from hearth and home; Warps and seduces native innocence, And breeds a habit of dishonesty.