More from Sophocles
A fearful man is always hearing things.
SophoclesSophocles Always desire to learn something useful.
SophoclesSophocles And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
SophoclesSophocles A lie never lives to be old.
SophoclesSophocles The happiest life is to be without thought.
SophoclesSophocles Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
SophoclesSophocles To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
SophoclesSophocles Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
SophoclesSophocles 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.
SophoclesSophocles Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
SophoclesSophocles You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SophoclesSophocles Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
SophoclesSophocles I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
SophoclesSophocles A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
SophoclesSophocles The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
SophoclesSophocles Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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