Sophocles

Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease.

To live with glory, or with glory die, _x000D_ This is the brave man's part.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

To him who is afraid, everything rustles.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

Silence gives the proper grace to women

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.

For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

Love is like ice in the hands of children.

You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.