Quotes by greek authors

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow. Sophocles
Nothing Live See Shadow Us Who Images
Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth. Sophocles
Gratitude Birth Gives Always
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. Sophocles
Happiness Man Lost Corpse Alive He Call Him Breathing
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. Sophocles
Truth Knowledge Dreadful How Help
There is a point at which even justice does injury. Sophocles
Justice Point Does Which Even Injury
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. Sophocles
Good Plant Gifts Highest Gods Mankind Reason
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. Sophocles
Man Become Evils He Wishes Affairs Cure Diseased
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him. Sophocles
Men Before See Seeing Prophet Know Him Nor Waits End May Many Event Things
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. Sophocles
Truth Good News Good News Impart General Conceal Merit
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. Sophocles
Good Men Judgment Lost Lies Within Till Hands Ignore Ill
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. Sophocles
Live Mortals Perish Does Reverence Nor Die Whether
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow. Sophocles
Nothing Live State See Shadow More Weightless Than Us Who Phantoms
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water. Sophocles
Woman Water Oaths
The rewards of virtue alone abide secure. Sophocles
Alone Virtue Secure Abide Rewards
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always. Sophocles
War Good Man Good Man Wicked Never Takes Always Chance
To live without evil belongs only to the gods. Sophocles
Evil Live Only Without Gods Belongs
Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief. Sophocles
Life Man Grief Happy Suffering He Until Without Passes His End Deem
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain? Sophocles
Evils How Source Just Dying Gain Many Whoever Lives Among
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. Sophocles
Life Money Long Those Strive All Things Take Mortals Still Gain Place Whose Things Second Second Place
Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge? Sophocles
Silence You Charge Supports Know Accuser
If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too. Sophocles
Will Too Likely Well End Begins Deeds
It is best to live however one can be. Sophocles
Best Live However
No man loves the bearer of bad tidings. Sophocles
Man Bad Tidings Loves
There is a time when even justice brings harm. Sophocles
Time Justice Even Brings Harm
It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong. Sophocles
Speak Wrong Well Terrible Terrible Thing Thing
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? Sophocles
Woman Luxury Excellence Prosperous House Became Without Bloated Ever
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