Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
SOPHOCLESStrike at a great man, and you will not miss.
SOPHOCLESTime, which sees all things, has found you out.
SOPHOCLESThe Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
SOPHOCLESThere is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
SOPHOCLESAlways desire to learn something useful.
SOPHOCLESA man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
SOPHOCLESBrave hearts do not back down back off.
SOPHOCLESDon’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
SOPHOCLESWithout labor nothing prospers.
SOPHOCLESSurely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
SOPHOCLESThe happiest life is to be without thought.
SOPHOCLESMen of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLESDo 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.
SOPHOCLESMen of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
SOPHOCLESSleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
SOPHOCLESWhom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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