Quote

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

Sophocles

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sophocles
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Kolonos
Errs
Unwillingly
Evil

More quotes by Sophocles

Image
What you can't enforce, do not command.
Sophocles
Image
Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.
Sophocles
Image
Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles
Image
Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
Sophocles
Image
Love is like ice in the hands of children.
Sophocles
Image
Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.
Sophocles
Image
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.
Sophocles
Image
A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
Sophocles
Image
Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.
Sophocles
Image
Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
Sophocles
Image
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
Sophocles
Image
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
Sophocles
Image
It is not righteousness to outrage
Sophocles
Image
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
Sophocles
Image
Without labor nothing prospers.
Sophocles
Image
The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.
Sophocles
Image
Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
Sophocles
Image
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
Image
For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.
Sophocles
Image
Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world
Sophocles