How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
SOPHOCLESKindness gives birth to kindness.
More Sophocles Quotes
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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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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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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