Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
SOPHOCLESStranger in a strange country.
More Sophocles Quotes
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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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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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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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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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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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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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