Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
SOPHOCLESOur happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
SOPHOCLESLet men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
SOPHOCLESThe soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
SOPHOCLESTruth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
SOPHOCLESIt is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
SOPHOCLESHow terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
SOPHOCLESYou win the victory when you yield to friends.
SOPHOCLESI am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
SOPHOCLESDo nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
SOPHOCLESNot 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.
SOPHOCLESKindness will always attract kindness.
SOPHOCLESThe truth is always the strongest argument.
SOPHOCLESOne who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
SOPHOCLESIf my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
SOPHOCLESThere is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
SOPHOCLESLove, you mock us for your sport.
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