Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
SOPHOCLESBest to live lightly, unthinkingly.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Without labor nothing prospers.
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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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The good befriend themselves.
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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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