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Sófocles

Sófocles

n. , Colonus · m. , Atenas

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Someone asked Sophocles, “How is your sex-life now? Are you still able to have a woman?” He replied, “Hush, man; most gladly indeed am I rid of it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.”

The New Yale Book of Quotations

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once / have learned from it to be evil in all things.

How terrible is wisdom when / it brings no profit to the man that’s wise!

Is anyone in all the world / Safe from unhappiness?

The truth is always the strongest argument.

In season, all is good.

Great Time makes all things dim.

Time is a kindly God.

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, / most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. / It is a sleep unsleeping.

The eyes of men love to pluck / the blossoms; from the faded flowery they turn away.

Troubles hurt the most / when they prove self- inflicted.

God will not punish the man / Who makes return for an injury.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. / And when you live well, then consider the most / your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

More men come to doom / through dirty profits than are kept by them.

Count no mortal happy till / he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain.

I see / that everywhere among the race of men / it is the tongue that wins and not the deed.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

Now let the weeping cease; / Let no one mourn again. / These things are in the hands of God.

You cannot know a man’s life before the man / has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

A man, though wise, should never be ashamed / of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.

If they are just, they are better than clever.

There are times when even justice brings harm with it.

A man who deals in fairness with his own, / he can make manifest justice in the state.

It’s not a man’s great frame / Or breadth of shoulders makes his manhood count: / A man 01 sense has always the advantage.

It is God’s giving if we laugh or weep.

An enemy’s gift is ruinous and no gift.

What men have seen they know; / But what shall come hereafter / No man before the event can see, / Nor what end waits for him.

To throw away / an honest friend is, as it were, to throw / your life away.

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

Look how men live, always precariously / balanced between good and bad fortune.

If you think my acts are foolishness / the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.

Fate has terrible power. / You cannot escape it by wealth or war. / No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

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