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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
By Sophocles
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
By Sophocles
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.
By Sophocles
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
By Sophocles
The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.
By Sophocles
The ideal condition
Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;
But since we are all likely to go astray,
The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.
Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;
But since we are all likely to go astray,
The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.
By Sophocles
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
By Sophocles
Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master.
By Sophocles
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
By Sophocles
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
By Sophocles