The Sophocles
The Sophocles
greek-poet justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
greek-poet
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
greek-poet man nature
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
greek-poet whoever
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
greek-poet
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
greek-poet
A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
greek-poet
It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.
greek-poet men nor prophet waits
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.