A fearful man is always hearing things. Sophocles More Quotes by Sophocles More Quotes From Sophocles The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear. Sophocles crush gears greek Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women. Sophocles silent forgiveness silence Time is a kindly God. Sophocles time In season, all is good. Sophocles timeliness seasons good-times The truth is ever best. Sophocles truth-is truth Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things. Sophocles evil mother men The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent. Sophocles expectations joy past Better to die, and sleep Sophocles soul suicide sleep All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. Sophocles evil wish men Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. Sophocles deceiver gratitude flow Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships. Sophocles fate dark war Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune. Sophocles misfortunes flying wind Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice. Sophocles limits justice children Wise thinkers prevail everywhere. Sophocles thinker wise When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live. Sophocles joy men believe Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice. Sophocles smart grief choices No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life. Sophocles marriage wise men Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall? Sophocles blessing men fall To revive sorrow is cruel. Sophocles revive sorrow We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint. Sophocles goal evil running
