If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: ‘Thou shalt not ration justice.’ – Sophocles
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession. – Sophocles
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty. – Sophocles
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick. – Sophocles
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution. – Sophocles
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. – Sophocles
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. – Sophocles