Sophocles
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
The end excuses any evil.
To revive sorrow is cruel.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.