Sophocles

• "A man growing old becomes a child again.“
• "No lie ever reaches old age.“
• "You should not consider a man's age but his acts.“
• "Old age and the passage of time teach all things.“
• "Not even old age knows how to love death.“
• "Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.“
• "Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.“
• "The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.“
• "Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.“
• "Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.“
• "It is best to live however one can be.“
• "For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.“
• "For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.“
• "Not even old age knows how to love death.“
• "To him who is in fear everything rustles.“
• "A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.“
• "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.“
• "Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.“
• "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.“
• "Reason is God's crowning gift to man.“
• "God's dice always have a lucky roll.“
• "Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.“
• "Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.“
• "To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.“
• "Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.“
• "Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.“
• "When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.“
• "How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.“
• "Children are the anchors of a mother's life.“
• "Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.“
• "Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.“
• "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.“
• "Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.“
• "Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.“
• "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.“
• "Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.“
• "Always desire to learn something useful.“
• "Who seeks shall find.“
• "No speech can stain what is noble by nature.“
• "All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.“
• "The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.“
• "Success is dependent on effort.“
• "There is no success without hardship.“
• "Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.“
• "Old age and the passage of time teach all things.“
• "Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.“
• "It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.“
• "How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.“
• "War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.“
• "Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.“
• "Wisdom outweighs any wealth.“
• "A short saying often contains much wisdom.“
• "Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.“
• "Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.“
• "If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.“
• "Silence is an ornament for women.“
• "Evil gains work their punishment.“
• "Children are the anchors of a mother's life.“

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