More from Sophocles
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
SophoclesSophocles Remember there is no success without hard work.
SophoclesSophocles How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
SophoclesSophocles Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
SophoclesSophocles The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
SophoclesSophocles Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
SophoclesSophocles I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
SophoclesSophocles The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
SophoclesSophocles A mind at peace does not engender wars.
SophoclesSophocles It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
SophoclesSophocles Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
SophoclesSophocles Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
SophoclesSophocles I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
SophoclesSophocles Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
SophoclesSophocles Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
SophoclesSophocles There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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