Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
SOPHOCLESFor whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
More Sophocles Quotes
-
-
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 -
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
SOPHOCLES -
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
SOPHOCLES -
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
SOPHOCLES -
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
SOPHOCLES -
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
SOPHOCLES -
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.
SOPHOCLES -
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES -
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
SOPHOCLES -
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
SOPHOCLES -
Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
SOPHOCLES -
Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
SOPHOCLES -
When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
SOPHOCLES -
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
SOPHOCLES -
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.
SOPHOCLES