Sophocles
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.Collection: Wisdom
Success is dependent on effort.Collection: Success
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.Collection: Knowledge
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.Collection: Mothers
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.Collection: Future
No lie ever reaches old age.Collection: Age
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.Collection: Happiness
Without labor nothing prospers.Collection: Work
The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.Collection: Alone
Who seeks shall find.Collection: Motivational
Silence is an ornament for women.Collection: Women
A man growing old becomes a child again.Collection: Age
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.Collection: Good
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Men
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.Collection: Time
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.Collection: Time
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.Collection: God
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.Collection: Death
Always desire to learn something useful.Collection: Motivational
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.Collection: Love
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.Collection: Wisdom
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.Collection: Sad
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.Collection: Fear
You win the victory when you yield to friends.Collection: Friendship
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.Collection: Wisdom
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.Collection: Best
God's dice always have a lucky roll.Collection: Chance
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.Collection: War
There is no success without hardship.Collection: Success
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.Collection: Wisdom
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.Collection: Happiness
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.Collection: Money
To him who is in fear everything rustles.Collection: Fear
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.Collection: Men
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.Collection: Alone
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.Collection: Intelligence
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.Collection: Best
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.Collection: Alone
Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.Collection: Trust
A short saying often contains much wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.Collection: Mistake
The truth is always the strongest argument.Collection: Truth
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.Collection: Honesty
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.Collection: Beautiful
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.Collection: Kindness
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.Collection: Wise
What people believe prevails over the truth.Collection: Truth
It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.Collection: Soul