495-406 BC, Greek Tragic Poet
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles – [Proverbs]
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Sophocles – [Life and Living]
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Sophocles – [Self-reliance]
For the dead there are no more toils.
Sophocles – [Death and Dying]
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles – [Action]
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Sophocles – [Failure]
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Sophocles – [Appreciation]
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
Sophocles – [Purpose]
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles – [Speakers and Speaking]
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Sophocles – [Kindness]
Look and you will find it — what is unsought will go undetected.
Sophocles – [Possibilities]
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles – [Judgment and Judges]
None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
Sophocles – [News]
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles – [Kindness]
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
Sophocles – [Love]
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles – [Honesty]
Success, remember is the reward of toil.
Sophocles – [Success]
The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
Sophocles – [Gambling]
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Sophocles – [Reason]
The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
Sophocles – [Knowledge]