Софокл цитаты

„Худшее зло не смерть, а невозможно умереть, когда мы этого желаем.“

„Помните, что даже самый тяжелый час в вашей жизни - всего 60 минут.“

„Много говорить и много сказать — не одно и то же“

„Одно слово освобождает нас от всех тяжестей и болей жизни: это слово — любовь.“

„Лучше будь прост да честен, чем умен и лжив.“

„Блаженна жизнь, пока живешь без дум.“

„Отвергнуть друга преданного — значит лишиться драгоценнейшего в жизни.“

„Как страшен может быть разум, если он не служит человеку.“

„Много в природе дивных сил, но сильней человека — нет.“

„Победа — это состояние ума, которое наступает в результате того, что человек сделал всё что мог.“

„Время открывает все сокрытое и скрывает все ясное.“

„Следует любить друга, помня при этом, что он может стать врагом, и ненавидеть врага, помня, что он может стать другом.“

„Великие дела не делаются сразу.“

„Один момент раскроет вам злодея,
но честный познается лишь годами.“

„Кого бог хочет погубить, того он сначала лишает разума.“

„В воде ты лишь свое лицо увидишь,
В вине узришь и сердце ты чужое.“

„Мудрость — родная мать счастья.“

„Слушай и молчи.“

„На тех, кто впал без умысла в ошибку, не гневаются сильно.“

„В опьянении всякий — невольник гнева и беглец ума.“

„На свете все когда-то было в первый раз.“

„Кто в деле смел, тот слов не устрашится.“

„Старость одинокая всем бедам беда!“

„Дары врагов пагубны.“

„Если я Софокл, то я не безумен. Если я безумен, то я не Софокл.“

„Дурная власть - не власть!“

„Меня коришь, а нрава своего не примечаешь.“

„Все мы,
Все, что землею вскормлены, не боле
Как легкий призрак и пустая тень.“

“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”

“Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.”

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”

“If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”

“For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.”

“The ideal condition
Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;
But since we are all likely to go astray,
The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.”

“Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.”

“The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.”

“The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”

“Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.”

“Let every man in mankind's frailty
Consider his last day; and let none
Presume on his good fortune until he find
Life, at his death, a memory without pain.”

“A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.”

“Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.”

“It is a good thing
To escape from death, but it is not great pleasure
To bring death to a friend.”

“Not to be born is, beyond all estimation, best; but when a man has seen the light of day, this is next best by far, that with utmost speed he should go back from where he came.”

“Love, unconquerable,
Waster of rich men, keeper
Of warm lights and all-night vigil
In the soft face of a girl:
Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!
Even the pure immortals cannot escape you,
And mortal man, in his one day's dusk,
Trembles before your glory.”

“Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.”

“A lie never lives to be old.”

“Evil sometimes seems good
To a man whose mind
A god leads to destruction.”

“Wisdom outweighs any wealth.”

“Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,
Befits proud birth.”

“No oath can be too binding for a lover.”

“Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”

“Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.”

“Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.”

“All men are liable to err.
But when an error is made, that man is no longer
unwise or unblessed who heals the evil
into which he has fallen and does not remain stubborn.”

“For kindness begets kindness evermore,
But he from whose mind fades the memory
Of benefits, noble is he no more.”

“If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.”

“I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.”