Silence gives the proper grace to women

Quote by Sophocles

Topics: Grace Quotes, Silence Quotes, Women Quotes

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Evil counsel travels fast.

Evil counsel travels fast.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend...

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend...

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

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...

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

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

No honest man will argue on every side

No honest man will argue on every side

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when...

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when...

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the...

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the...

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that...

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that...

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a...

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a...

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

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.