Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
SOPHOCLESThere is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Despair often breeds disease.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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In season, all is good.
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Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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