The Sophocles
The Sophocles
The Sophocles quotes about
friendship honest honest-friends
To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.
rewards virtue secure
The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
lows humans lays
A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
good-times timeliness seasons
In season, all is good.
destiny
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
uprising evil dying
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
time
Time is a kindly God.
revenge men return
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
sleep eye men
The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.
strength iron fire
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
time great-times all-things
Great Time makes all things dim.
hands mourning weeping
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
wish-to-die evil worst
Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
conceited judging speak
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.