Greek - Poet | 496 BC - 406 BC
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Sophocles
MenEvilFortuneGreaterThan
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
JusticePointInjuryEvenWhich
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
AngryPhysicianWorseDiseaseThan
For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
DeathNightSomeoneMoreJust One
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
ManWishesBecomeCureHeEvils
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
KindnessFriendBetterWellWould
For the dead there are no more toils.
DeadMoreToils
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
DoneWhyMilkNo SenseOverSense
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
GratitudeDeadQuickOffHowOwed
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
AloneMenMindSpeechOthersEmpty
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
FuturePastLostYoungDeadArts
God's dice always have a lucky roll.
GodChanceLuckyAlwaysDiceRoll
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