Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
SOPHOCLESSleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
More Sophocles Quotes
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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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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Who seeks shall find.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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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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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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