Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
SOPHOCLESFortune never helps the fainthearted.
More Sophocles Quotes
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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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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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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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.
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In season, all is good.
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God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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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.
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There is no success without hardship.
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