The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
SOPHOCLESA word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
More Sophocles Quotes
-
-
Remember there is no success without hard work.
SOPHOCLES -
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
SOPHOCLES -
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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 -
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SOPHOCLES -
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
SOPHOCLES -
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
SOPHOCLES -
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
SOPHOCLES -
In season, all is good.
SOPHOCLES -
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
SOPHOCLES -
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
SOPHOCLES -
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
SOPHOCLES -
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
SOPHOCLES -
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
SOPHOCLES -
There is no success without hardship.
SOPHOCLES