Quotes by : Sophocles

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Hail the sun! the brightest of all that everDawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes!Hail the....

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many-....

Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene, Antigone....

Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he....

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a soul,....

We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.