Sophocles

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

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

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

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

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?