What you can’t enforce, do not command.
SOPHOCLESA trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
More Sophocles Quotes
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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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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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Who seeks shall find.
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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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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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