The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
SOPHOCLESYou don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
More Sophocles Quotes
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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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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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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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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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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There is no success without hardship.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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