Top 140 Quotes by Sophocles

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Despair often breeds disease.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

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

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.