Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
SOPHOCLESKindness gives birth to kindness.
More Sophocles Quotes
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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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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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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There is no success without hardship.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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The good befriend themselves.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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