There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.
SophoclesThere is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
SophoclesWhat fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
SophoclesAlas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
SophoclesBest of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.
SophoclesIt is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
SophoclesThe stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
SophoclesWonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.
SophoclesWhoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
SophoclesThe tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.
SophoclesA cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good
SophoclesFor the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
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