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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
Sophocles
The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
Sophocles
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
Sophocles
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Sophocles
There is a time when even justice brings harm.
Sophocles
There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
Sophocles
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Sophocles
There is no greater evil than anarchy.
Sophocles
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
Sophocles
There is no success without hardship.
Sophocles
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Sophocles
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
Sophocles
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
Sophocles
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
Sophocles
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
Sophocles
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Sophocles
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.
Sophocles
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Sophocles
