Sophocles

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature _x000D_ and does things that misfit it.

From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

The happiest life is to be without thought

I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.

A mind at peace does not engender wars.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.