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.
SOPHOCLESI would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
More Sophocles Quotes
-
-
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
SOPHOCLES -
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
SOPHOCLES -
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
SOPHOCLES -
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
SOPHOCLES -
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SOPHOCLES -
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
SOPHOCLES -
When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
SOPHOCLES -
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
SOPHOCLES -
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
SOPHOCLES -
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
SOPHOCLES -
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
SOPHOCLES -
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
SOPHOCLES -
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
SOPHOCLES -
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
SOPHOCLES -
I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
SOPHOCLES -
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
SOPHOCLES -
Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
SOPHOCLES -
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
SOPHOCLES -
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
SOPHOCLES -
Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
SOPHOCLES -
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
SOPHOCLES -
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
SOPHOCLES -
Who seeks shall find.
SOPHOCLES -
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
SOPHOCLES -
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
SOPHOCLES -
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
SOPHOCLES