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A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
Sophocles
A fearful man is always hearing things.
Sophocles
A human being is only breath and shadow.
Sophocles
A lie never lives to be old.
Sophocles
A man growing old becomes a child again.
Sophocles
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
Sophocles
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
Sophocles
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
Sophocles
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
Sophocles
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
Sophocles
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Sophocles
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
Sophocles
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Sophocles
Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
Sophocles
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Sophocles
Better not to exist than live basely.
Sophocles
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
Sophocles
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Sophocles
