What men have seen they know....
More Quotes from Sophocles:
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.Sophocles
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
Sophocles
No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.
Sophocles
Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
Sophocles
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Sophocles
Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
Sophocles
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time.Bille August
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Epicurus
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
Allan Bloom