Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
SOPHOCLESFortune never helps the fainthearted.
SOPHOCLESWhat people believe prevails over the truth.
SOPHOCLESWise thinkers prevail everywhere.
SOPHOCLESTime, which sees all things, has found you out.
SOPHOCLESAll is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
SOPHOCLESDo 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.
SOPHOCLESThe truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
SOPHOCLESStranger in a strange country.
SOPHOCLESThe tyrant is a child of pride.
SOPHOCLESOne who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
SOPHOCLESNobody likes the bringer of bad news.
SOPHOCLESUgly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
SOPHOCLESOur happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
SOPHOCLESGod will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
SOPHOCLESHe who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
SOPHOCLESSurely, 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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