The Sophocles
The Sophocles
The Sophocles quotes about
unjust fraud secure
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
kindness goodness-and-kindness love-and-kindness
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
advice bad-advice hateful
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
growing growing-old
No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
despair disease
Despair often breeds disease.
lovers oath binding
No oath can be too binding for a lover.
gratitude flow deceiver
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
leadership future-leaders great-leader
What you can't enforce, do not command.
misery pleasure forgetfulness
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
toil rewards classroom
Success is the reward for toil.
money men cities
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.
all-things concealed
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
battle
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
mind suffering one-day
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.