If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
SOPHOCLESMoney: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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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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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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