What you can't enforce, do not command. Sophocles More Quotes by Sophocles More Quotes From Sophocles Stranger in a strange country. Sophocles strangestrangercountry Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad. Sophocles jupitermadinsanity No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over? Sophocles fighteryieldkilling A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance. Sophocles prudentmenlife For most men friendship is a faithless harbor. Sophocles harborsfriendshipmen Everything is ideal to its parent. Sophocles idealsfamilyparent And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool. Sophocles foolstrikesaction Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer. Sophocles shiningsungoodbye 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 fateevilenemy 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 griefheartchildren Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's. Sophocles opportunitygivingfather The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead. Sophocles departedjoymen Fortune never helps the fainthearted. Sophocles cowardicefortunehelping Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man. Sophocles wondermenworld 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 fragmentsironfire 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 ignoranceevilmen There is no such thing as the old age of the wise. Sophocles wisdomagewise When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs. Sophocles sorrowpeoplefall
