“Not even old age knows how to love death.”
Author
Sophocles
49 quotes
“A man growing old becomes a child again.”
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“To him who is in fear everything rustles.”
“Children are the anchors of a mother's life.”
“To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.”
“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”
“Always desire to learn something useful.”
“Reason is God's crowning gift to man.”
“Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.”
“Silence is an ornament for women.”
“It is best to live however one can be.”
“Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.”
“Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.”
“Who seeks shall find.”
“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
“Success is dependent on effort.”
“Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.”
“Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.”
“Evil gains work their punishment.”
“War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.”
“The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.”
“No speech can stain what is noble by nature.”
“It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.”
“No lie ever reaches old age.”
“You should not consider a man's age but his acts.”