Quotes by Sophocles

“What greater wound is there than a false friend?”

“Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”

“No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.”

“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”

“All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.”

“The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.”

“A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.”

“You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening.”

“A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.”

“I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.”

“No wound is worse than counterfeited love.”

“What people believe prevails over the truth.”