Sophocles

“I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mortal, that my claimUpon the future is no more than yours.”

“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”

“All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.”

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

“Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.”

“Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.”

“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”

“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”

“Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.”

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

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

“Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.”

“Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.”

“May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene, Antigone (The Theban Plays) by Sophocles”

“Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.”

“It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.”

“Not even Ares battles against necessity.”

“Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.”

“Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.”

“For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.”