Greek - Poet | 496 BC - 406 BC
Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
Sophocles
GratitudeBirthAlwaysGives
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
FriendshipWinVictoryFriendsYou
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
DeathDieWorstAbleEvenWants
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
NatureManOwnDisgustLeavesHis
I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
LiveShadowNothingSeeI SeeUs
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
MindFreeBodyStillEnslaved
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
WisdomWordsMuchGoesOftenFewest
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
LiveBestLightlyUnthinkingly
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
MenEndSeeingKnowHimSee
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
DayMenTongueNowSeeOut
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
CheatTreatyEverImpediment
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
NatureSpeechNobleStain
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