Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
SOPHOCLESHe who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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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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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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