The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
SOPHOCLESFortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
More Sophocles Quotes
-
-
No honest man will argue on every side.
SOPHOCLES -
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
SOPHOCLES -
A lie never lives to be old.
SOPHOCLES -
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
SOPHOCLES -
Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
SOPHOCLES -
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
SOPHOCLES -
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
SOPHOCLES -
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
SOPHOCLES -
What you can’t enforce, do not command.
SOPHOCLES -
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
SOPHOCLES -
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
SOPHOCLES -
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
SOPHOCLES -
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
SOPHOCLES -
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
SOPHOCLES -
Brave hearts do not back down back off.
SOPHOCLES