Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
SOPHOCLESI would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
More Sophocles Quotes
-
-
To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
SOPHOCLES -
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
SOPHOCLES -
Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
SOPHOCLES -
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
SOPHOCLES -
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
SOPHOCLES -
Always desire to learn something useful.
SOPHOCLES -
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
SOPHOCLES -
Despair often breeds disease.
SOPHOCLES -
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
SOPHOCLES -
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
SOPHOCLES -
Love, you mock us for your sport.
SOPHOCLES -
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
SOPHOCLES -
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES -
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.
SOPHOCLES -
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
SOPHOCLES