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

Quote by Sophocles

Topics: War Quotes

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred...

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred...

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

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

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

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...

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

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...

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better...

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better...

Despair often breeds disease.

Despair often breeds disease.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have...

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have...

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

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...

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the...

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the...

It is best to live however one can be.

It is best to live however one can be.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or...

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or...

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still...

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still...