The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Quote by Sophocles

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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...

It is best to live however one can be.

It is best to live however one can be.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

A lie never lives to be old.

A lie never lives to be old.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives...

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives...

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.

Always desire to learn something useful.

Always desire to learn something useful.

An unexamined life is not worth living...

An unexamined life is not worth living...

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 wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom

A short saying oft contains much wisdom

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

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

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...

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...

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those...

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those...

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.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil...

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil...