Sophocles

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in the truth…

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not…

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms…

For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is…

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those…

No speech can stain what is noble by nature…

Children are the anchors of a mother’s life…

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things…

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always…

A short saying often contains much wisdom…

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when…

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way…

A man growing old becomes a child again…

To him who is in fear everything rustles…

There is no success without hardship…