“Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.” Sophocles
“Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.” Sophocles AngryLieTrouble
“Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.” Sophocles DeadFutureLostPastYoung
“Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.” Sophocles
“If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.” Sophocles DeadEvilOldTears
“Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.” Sophocles
“For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.” Sophocles EvilMother
“What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?” Sophocles HouseWoman
