The Sophocles
The Sophocles
greek-poet
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
deeds greek-poet shameful taught
For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
freedom greek-poet weight word
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
greek-poet whoever
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
good greek-poet hold ignorant men until
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
breathing call greek-poet happiness man
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
among ancient call cannot good greek-poet life man men mortals saying thoroughly understand
There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
accuser dwells greek-poet terrible witness
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
greek-poet man nature
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
greek-poet
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
cure evils greek-poet less possible raise valuable
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
greek-poet justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
action knowledge save trial
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test, which is not fanciful; save by trial
love-life men age
No man loves life like him that's growing old.