Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
SOPHOCLESStranger in a strange country.
More Sophocles Quotes
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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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.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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