Quote

Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.

Sophocles

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sophocles
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Kolonos
Respects
Happier
Alike
Child
Father
May
Children
Would

More quotes by Sophocles

Image
Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came
Sophocles
Image
If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.
Sophocles
Image
What is to be taught I learn what is to be discovered I seek what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.
Sophocles
Image
Kids are anchors of mothers' life
Sophocles
Image
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
Sophocles
Image
The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.
Sophocles
Image
Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.
Sophocles
Image
When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.
Sophocles
Image
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
Sophocles
Image
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
Sophocles
Image
Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
Sophocles
Image
Silence gives the proper grace to women
Sophocles
Image
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
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
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Sophocles
Image
Evil counsel travels fast.
Sophocles
Image
To err from the right path is common to mankind.
Sophocles
Image
And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
Sophocles
Image
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Sophocles
Image
Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
Sophocles