A lie never lives to be old.
SOPHOCLESKindness begets kindness evermore.
More Sophocles Quotes
-
-
Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
SOPHOCLES -
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
SOPHOCLES -
Stranger in a strange country.
SOPHOCLES -
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
SOPHOCLES -
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
SOPHOCLES -
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
SOPHOCLES -
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
SOPHOCLES -
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
SOPHOCLES -
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
SOPHOCLES -
Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
SOPHOCLES -
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
SOPHOCLES -
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
SOPHOCLES -
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.
SOPHOCLES -
Knowledge must come through action.
SOPHOCLES -
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES -
Love, you mock us for your sport.
SOPHOCLES -
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
SOPHOCLES -
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
SOPHOCLES -
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
SOPHOCLES -
The happiest life is to be without thought.
SOPHOCLES -
The truth is always the strongest argument.
SOPHOCLES -
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
SOPHOCLES -
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
SOPHOCLES -
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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.
SOPHOCLES -
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
SOPHOCLES