Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
SOPHOCLESHe who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
More Sophocles Quotes
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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There is no success without hardship.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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