Sophocles Quotes
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.



All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.



For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.



Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.



Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...



Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.



It is not righteousness to outragea brave man dead, not even though you hate him.



Evil gains work their punishment.



Success is dependent on effort.



Quick decisions are unsafe decisions



My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.



Without labor nothing prospers.



One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.



Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.



You win the victory when you yield to friends.








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