Sophocles

When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse…

Evil gains work their punishment…

Success is dependent on effort…

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best…

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives…

Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a…

No lie ever reaches old age…

You should not consider a man’s age but his acts…

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him…

To be doing good deeds is man’s most glorious task…

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly…

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear…

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead…

Not even old age knows how to love death…

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all…