Sophocles
Sophocles

For the dead there are no more toils.

Sophocles
Sophocles

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

Sophocles
Sophocles

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

Sophocles
Sophocles

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

Sophocles
Sophocles

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Sophocles
Sophocles

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

Sophocles
Sophocles

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

Sophocles
Sophocles

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.

Sophocles
Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Sophocles
Sophocles

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

Sophocles
Sophocles

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Sophocles
Sophocles

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

Sophocles
Sophocles

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Sophocles
Sophocles

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Sophocles
Sophocles

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

Sophocles
Sophocles

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.

Sophocles
Sophocles

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

Sophocles
Sophocles

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

Sophocles
Sophocles

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Sophocles
Sophocles

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.