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- Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Electra
- A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Trachiniae
- Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Trachiniae
- One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Oedipus at Colonus
- It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Oedipus at Colonus
- Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Creusa
- Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
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