Sophocles

Silence is an ornament for women.

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

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.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.