Inspiring Quotes by Sophocles - Page 2

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"Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him"

"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes"

"Wise thinkers prevail everywhere"

"Success is dependent on effort"

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things"

"Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always"

"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely"

"Even a poor man can receive honors"

"Children are the anchors of a mother's life"

"Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day"

"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"

"There is a time when even justice brings harm"

"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad"

"The rewards of virtue alone abide secure"

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities"

"Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?"

"A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick"

"Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness"

"It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune"

"It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth"

"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong"

"Better not to exist than live basely"

"Evil counsel travels fast"

"It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds"

"It is best to live however one can be"

"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away"

"If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too"

"Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?"

"How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time"

"Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness"

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future"

"A fearful man is always hearing things"

"A day lays low and lifts up again all human things"

"It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do"

"Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing"

"Evil gains work their punishment"

"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies"

"Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver"

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow"

"Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly"

"Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day"

"Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed"

"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"

"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping"

"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow"

"Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is"

"There is a point at which even justice does injury"

"Not knowing anything is the sweetest life"

"Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it"

"It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong"

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