The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
SOPHOCLESNo treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
More Sophocles Quotes
-
-
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
SOPHOCLES -
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
SOPHOCLES -
The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
SOPHOCLES -
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
SOPHOCLES -
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
SOPHOCLES -
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
SOPHOCLES -
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
SOPHOCLES -
Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
SOPHOCLES -
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
SOPHOCLES -
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SOPHOCLES -
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
SOPHOCLES -
Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
SOPHOCLES -
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
SOPHOCLES -
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
SOPHOCLES -
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
SOPHOCLES