Don’t kill the messenger.
Sophocles
Antigone
Don’t kill the messenger.
For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Sophocles
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare – I have no use for him, either.
Sophocles
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
Sophocles
Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day’s dusk, Trembles before your glory.
Sophocles
There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
Sophocles
Numberless are the world’s wonders, but none More wonderful than man.
Sophocles
Our ship of fate, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to harbor at last.
Sophocles
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles