Stranger in a strange country.
SOPHOCLESStrike at a great man, and you will not miss.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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