Quotes by : Sophocles

No lie ever reaches old age.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Success is dependent on effort.

When a man has lost all happiness he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

JOCASTA:So clear in this case were the oracles,so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;what God....

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such....

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?

Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded....