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.
SOPHOCLESFortune never helps the fainthearted.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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The good befriend themselves.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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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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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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