Sophocles Quotes - Page 2

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

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.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

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

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

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

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

A lie never lives to be old.

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

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

The happiest life is to be without thought

No wound is worse than counterfeited love.

Kindness will always attract kindness.

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

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

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

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

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

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

Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.

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.

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