What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
SOPHOCLESIf we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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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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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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