I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
SOPHOCLESThere is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
More Sophocles Quotes
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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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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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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There is no success without hardship.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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