Sophocles

You should not consider a man’s age but his acts…

When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse…

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the…

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness…

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead…

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure…

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

It is best to live however one can be…

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when…

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best…