Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
SOPHOCLESWise thinkers prevail everywhere.
More Sophocles Quotes
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There is no success without hardship.
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Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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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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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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