Sophocles
Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?Collection: Support
Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.Collection: Justice
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?Collection: Safety
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.Collection: Men
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.Collection: Men
The end excuses any evil.Collection: Evil
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.Collection: Fall
Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them.Collection: Law
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.Collection: Friendship
As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!Collection: Eye
Opportunity has power over all things.Collection: Opportunity
How dangerous can false reasoning prove!Collection: Decision
The truth is what I cherish and that's my strengthCollection: Cherish
Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.Collection: Stewards
Despair often breeds disease.Collection: Despair
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.Collection: Eye
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.Collection: Gratitude
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.Collection: Work
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.Collection: Men
You should not consider a man's age but his acts.Collection: Birthday
Knowledge must come through action.Collection: Action
I write a woman's oaths in water.Collection: Writing
I was not born to share the hate, but love.Collection: Hate
Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?Collection: Fall
And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.Collection: Sight
What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.Collection: Future
Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.Collection: Wish To Die
Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.Collection: Pain
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Wise
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.Collection: Good Friend
Evil gains work their punishment.Collection: Punishment
Enemies gifts are no gifts and do no good.Collection: Enemy
What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?Collection: Father
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.Collection: Grief
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?Collection: Luxury
As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see.Collection: Sound
The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.Collection: Wise
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.Collection: Anger
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.Collection: Grief
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.Collection: Life
It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.Collection: Speak
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.Collection: Speech
Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.Collection: Pain
For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.Collection: Hell
You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.Collection: Life
War loves to seek its victims in the young.Collection: Love
Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.Collection: Heart