He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life. Sophocles More Quotes by Sophocles More Quotes From Sophocles Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad. Sophocles jupiter mad insanity No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over? Sophocles fighter yield killing A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance. Sophocles prudent men life For most men friendship is a faithless harbor. Sophocles harbors friendship men Everything is ideal to its parent. Sophocles ideals family parent And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool. Sophocles fool strikes action Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer. Sophocles shining sun goodbye 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 fate evil enemy Knowledge must come through action. Sophocles action 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 grief heart children Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's. Sophocles opportunity giving father The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead. Sophocles departed joy men Fortune never helps the fainthearted. Sophocles cowardice fortune helping Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man. Sophocles wonder men world The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through. Sophocles fragments iron fire I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow. Sophocles shadow The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself Sophocles ignorance evil men There is no such thing as the old age of the wise. Sophocles wisdom age wise When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs. Sophocles sorrow people fall Great Time makes all things dim. Sophocles great-times all-things time
