Sophocles

Wisdom outweighs any wealth…

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness…

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words…

It is best to live however one can be…

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the…

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception…

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the…

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit…

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have…

Always desire to learn something useful…

Silence is an ornament for women…

Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it…

Old age and the passage of time teach all things…

Who seeks shall find…

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities…