Sophocles Man Quotations

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death? Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.