It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
SOPHOCLESThere is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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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.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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