If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
SOPHOCLESThere is no success without hardship.
More Sophocles Quotes
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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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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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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