Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Quote by Sophocles

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is...

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is...

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source...

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source...

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells...

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells...

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test, which is not fanciful; save...

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test, which is not fanciful; save...

Silence gives the proper grace to women

Silence gives the proper grace to women

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is...

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is...

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has...

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has...

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead...

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead...