Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
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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…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by SophoclesMoney 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.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
God's dice always have a lucky roll.
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
Not even old age knows how to love death.
For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
It is best to live however one can be.
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.