Who seeks shall find.
SOPHOCLESWhoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
More Sophocles Quotes
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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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.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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I 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.
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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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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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