Even a poor man can receive honors.
Category Archive: Sophocles
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
Evil gains work their punishment.
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: ‘Thou shalt not ration justice.’
Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
A human being is only breath and shadow.
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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.