Silence gives the proper grace to women

Quote by Sophocles

Topics: Grace Quotes, Silence Quotes, Women Quotes

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

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...

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who...

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who...

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.

Better not to exist than live basely.

Better not to exist than live basely.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but...

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but...

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always

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...

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

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

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still...

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still...