Sophocles - Oedpius Rex

O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!
Sophocles - Antigone
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus
Stranger in a strange country.
Sophocles
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles - Trachiniae
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Sophocles - Antigone
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.
Sophocles - Electra
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
Sophocles
To revive sorrow is cruel.
Sophocles - Antigone
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Sophocles - Creusa
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Sophocles - Antigone
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.
Sophocles
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles - Acrisius
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus
One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
Sophocles
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus
The good befriend themselves.
Sophocles - Trachiniae
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles - Antigone
Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
Sophocles - Trachiniae
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Time eases all things.
Sophocles - Antigone
For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
Sophocles
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
Sophocles - Electra
Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it.
Sophocles - Ajax
It is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
Sophocles - Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
Sophocles - Antigone
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles - Ajax
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles - Electra (c.409 BC)
The end excuses any evil.
Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus
It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
Sophocles - Antigone
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

- Sophocles - Oedpius Rex