Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
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Sophocles
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About Sophocles
Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian, one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in th…
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Silence is an ornament for women.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
There is no success without hardship.
Success is dependent on effort.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Who seeks shall find.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
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.
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.