How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
By Sophocles
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth
By Sophocles
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
By Sophocles
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
By Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
By Sophocles
Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
By Sophocles
God's dice always have a lucky roll.
By Sophocles
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
By Sophocles
For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
By Sophocles
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
By Sophocles
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
By Sophocles
For the dead there are no more toils.
By Sophocles
For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.
By Sophocles
For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
By Sophocles
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
By Sophocles
Evil gains work their punishment.
By Sophocles
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
By Sophocles
Even a poor man can receive honors.
By Sophocles
Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
By Sophocles
Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
By Sophocles
Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.
By Sophocles
Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
By Sophocles
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
By Sophocles
Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it.
By Sophocles
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
By Sophocles
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.
By Sophocles
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
By Sophocles
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
By Sophocles
