410 Interesting Quotes by Sophocles With Free Shareable Pictures

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

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

Always desire to learn something useful.

Success is dependent on effort.

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

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

There is no success without hardship.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

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

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

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

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

Evil gains work their punishment.

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

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

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

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

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

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

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

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

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

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

Not even old age knows how to love death.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

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.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

A lie never lives to be old.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

For the dead there are no more toils.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

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

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

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

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

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

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

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

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

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

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

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

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

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

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

Evil counsel travels fast.

No lie ever reaches old age.

Despair often breeds disease.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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

Silence is an ornament for women.

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

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

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

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

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

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

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

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.

It is best to live however one can be.

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

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

Better not to exist than live basely.

When trouble ends even troubles please.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

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

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

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

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

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

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

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

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

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

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.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

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

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.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.

There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,
When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone." -- Sentry.

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening.

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.

It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes.

You are a woman marked for sorrow.

We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.

Orestes beloved. as you die you destroy me. You have torn away the part of my mind where hope was .

A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

Wonders 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.

The happiest life consists of ignorance,
Before you learn how to grieve or rejoice."
-- SOPHOCLES (496-406 B.C.).

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself.

What do I care for life when you are dead?

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

Silence gives the proper grace to women.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

The end excuses any evil.

The tyrant is a child of pride.

It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.

I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

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

Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer.

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

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.

What an ugly, loveless life for a girl.

But when a god sends harm, no man can sidestep it, no matter how strong he may be.

Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

The only crime is pride.

Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.

The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.

Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.

Who seeks shall find.

Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

To revive sorrow is cruel.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.

The eyes of men love to pluck the blossoms from the faded flowers they turn away.

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.

You drive me back down my desperation--that unclouded incurable never forgotten evil growing inside my life.

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

To me no profitable speech sounds ill.

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

I should have praise and honor for what I have done: All these men here would praise me.
Were their lips not frozen shut with fear of you.
Ah the good fortune of kings. Licensed to say and do whatever the please." Antigone to Theben's king Creon.

No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.

For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.

War loves to seek its victims in the young.

You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.

In season, all is good.

What people believe prevails over the truth.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise -- that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer -- such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty.

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

Here he comes like a stealing shadow, like a footprint of death into the rooms, stalking the past with freshcut blood in his hands.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise.

You, you'll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused! Too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen, blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this hour on! Blind in the darkness-blind!

By God, I'll have more booty in a moment.

I know that you are deathly sick; and yet, sick as you are, not one is as sick as I.

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

Obedience to authority saves many skins.

Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death -- what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.

When he endures nothing but endless miseries -- What pleasure is there in living the day after day,

Edging slowly back and forth toward death?

Anyone who warms their heart with the glow

Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all.

The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.

To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.

I was born to join in love, not hate -- that is my nature.

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.

Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.

Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

Yes it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore.

This is Electra. Brilliant no more.

I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.

By dread things I am compelled. I know that. I see the trap closing. I know what I am. But while life is in me I will not stop this violence. No. Oh my friends who is there to comfort me? Who understands? Leave me be, let me go, do not soothe me. This is a knot no one can untie. There will be no rest, there is no retrieval. No number exists for griefs like these.

I live in a place of tears.

I am at the end. I exist no more.

Last night was a night of bad dreams and ambiguous visions.

Now is no time to delay. This is the edge of action.

No pity for these things, there is no pity but mine, oh father, for the pity of your butchering rawblood death.

I am determined that never, if I can help it,
Shall evil triumph over good." -- Creon.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.

There is a kind of excellence in me and you--born in us--and it cannot live in shame.

You're dreaming, girl, lost in a moving dream.

Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me--believe me. Sometimes I shock myself.

I will not live by rules like those.

Oh my love take me there. Let me dwell where you are. I am already nothing, I am already burning. Oh my love, I was once part of you--take me too!

All my love gone for nothing. Days of my love, years of my love.

Yes I know sorrow. Know it far too well. My life is a tunnel choked by the sweepings of dread.

And instead my beloved, luck sent you back to me colder than ashes, later than shadow.

Long have we lived in shadows and shuddering: today I think our future is opening out.

But death was a wind too strong for that.

Never since that time has this house got itself clear of rawblood butchery.

Careful! There is war in women too, as you know by experience, I think.

Not long now: the blazing dream of my head is crawling out.

You are nothing at all. Just a crack where the light slipped through.

Friendship is a tension. It makes delicate demands.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or SandM gear.

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world.

Brave hearts do not back down back off.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.

Leave me to my own absurdity.

It is my nature to join in love, not hate.

What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?

The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.

I owe more to the dead, with whom
I will spend a much longer time,
than I will ever owe to the living.

May the dead forgive me, I can do no other
But as I am commanded; to do more is madness." -- Ismene.

I say that this crime is holy.

Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he's shown his colors, ruling the people, making laws. Experience, there's the test.

Ungeheuer ist vieles, doch nichts ist ungeheurer als der Mensch.

They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.

For kindness begets kindness evermore,

But he from whose mind fades the memory

Of benefits, noble is he no more.

Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live.

You won't listen to reason at all, will you?"
"No. My mind is my own.

To live with glory, or with glory die,

This is the brave man's part.

You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

Man's highest blessedness, In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, 'Tis best in word or deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments, And so to grey-haired age Teach wisdom at the last.

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.

A mind at peace does not engender wars.

It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers.

Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

A city which belongs to just one man is no true city.

I am free! for I have in me the strength of truth.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

Alas! how terrible it is to know,
Where no good comes of knowing!

Truth is always straightforward.

Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

It is not righteousness to outrage.

To err from the right path is common to mankind.

Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.

Success is the reward for toil.

How dangerous can false reasoning prove!

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.

More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.

Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

I write a woman's oaths in water.

Love, you mock us for your sport.

Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

Better to die, and sleep

The never-waking sleep, than linger on

And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship.

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.

To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.

Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.

When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

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.

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good.

What you cannot enforce, do not command!

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.

No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.

I could not turn away from anyone
Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him.
I know well, being mortal, that my claim
Upon the future is no more than yours.

For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

What, shall such traces of my birth appear,

And I not follow them! It may not be.

My son, I pray
that chance will prove kinder to you
than she was to me.

Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

For Chance may lift and Chance may dip the scale
Of fortune and misfortune any day.

For chance is ever raising up the unhappy and casting down the happy, and none can say whether a man's destiny be the one or the other.

All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.

Envy crawls toward the wealthy.

I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs.

The gifts of enemies are no gifts, and are fraught with mischief.

Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.

Ah, race of mortal men,
How as a thing of nought
I count ye, though ye live;
For who is there of men
That more of blessing knows,
Than just a little while
To seem to prosper well,
And, having seemed, to fall?

It is better not to exist than to live in misery.

All men may err; but he that keepeth not his folly, but repenteth, doeth well; but stubbornness cometh to great trouble.

Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

For it is not right that a noble man should take pleasure when the pleasure is not right.

Opportunity possessing the power over all things, acquires much in its course.

Piety dies not with man; live they or die they, it perishes not.

I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

A man can get a reputation from very small things.

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

To women silence is the best ornament.

Silence has many beauties.

If you believe that stubbornness without reflection Is a virtue, you are thinking crookedly.

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown. Nothing is impossible.

Time eases all things.

The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating.

False words do not bring forth fruit.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

Sons are the anchors of a mother's life.

One must learn by doing the thing. For though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune.

Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Those who jump to conclusions may go wrong.

Nothing prospers without effort.

Men of ill-judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, til they have lost it.

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise.

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself.

If they are just, they are better than clever.

It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.

Gentle time will heal our sorrows.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.