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

Quote by Sophocles

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Always desire to learn something useful.

Always desire to learn something useful.

When trouble ends even troubles please.

When trouble ends even troubles please.

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong

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.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

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...

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

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...

A lie never lives to be old.

A lie never lives to be old.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Without labor nothing prospers.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

An unexamined life is not worth living...

An unexamined life is not worth living...

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and...

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and...

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not...

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not...

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Not even old age knows how to love death.