If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

— Sophocles

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life

— Sophocles

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to take the courses that he knows is best for the State.

— Sophocles

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoctetes

— Sophocles

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!

— Sophocles

Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

— Sophocles

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

— Sophocles

It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.

— Sophocles

It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.

— Sophocles

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

— Sophocles