Sophocles
When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.Collection: Believe
Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.Collection: Pain
For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.Collection: Hate
The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.Collection: Change
No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?Collection: Yield
Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?Collection: Done
Everything is ideal to its parent.Collection: Family
Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.Collection: War
False words do not bring forth fruit.Collection: Lying
Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.Collection: Firsts
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.Collection: Children
When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.Collection: Fall
Great Time makes all things dim.Collection: Time
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.Collection: Gratitude
Evil counsel travels fast.Collection: Evil
When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.Collection: Taken
For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Pride
A man is nothing but breath and shadow.Collection: Men
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.Collection: Children
Not even old age knows how to love death.Collection: Birthday
One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.Collection: Thinking
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.Collection: Laughter
It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.Collection: Evil
It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.Collection: Judging
The truth is ever best.Collection: Truth
Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.Collection: Men
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!Collection: Fate
Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.Collection: Heart
The tyrant is a child of pride.Collection: Children
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.Collection: Mind
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.Collection: Watches
I cannot love a friend whose love is words.Collection: Friendship
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.Collection: Motivational
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.Collection: Wise
Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.Collection: Evil
No honest man will argue on every sideCollection: Honesty
Success, remember is the reward of toil.Collection: Success
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.Collection: Advice
Kindness begets kindness evermore.Collection: Kindness
Stranger in a strange country.Collection: Country
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.Collection: Justice
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.Collection: Wisdom
To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.Collection: May
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.Collection: Liars
Nobody loves life like an old man.Collection: Life