Szophoklész idézet

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„Sok van, mi csodálatos, de az embernél nincs semmi csodálatosabb.”

„Egy rövid mondás gyakran sok bölcsességet tartalmaz.”

„A tudatlan emberek nem tudják, mi jót tartanak a kezükben, amíg el nem dobják.”

„A bölcsesség a boldogság legfőbb része.”

„Ha egy szomjas embernek minden bölcsességet felajánlanál, akkor sem örülne jobban, mintha egy italt adnál neki.”

„A gyors döntések bizonytalan döntések.”

„Sok bölcsesség gyakran kevesebb szóval jár.”

„A perverz gondolkodású emberek nem ismerik fel annak kiválóságát, ami a kezükben van, amíg valaki ki nem veri belőlük.”

“Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.”

“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!”

“Men of ill judgement oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”

“A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.”

“Ah, son, may you prove luckier than your father, but in all else like him. Then you would not prove base.”

“When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.”

“I will never reveal my dreadful secrets, or rather, yours.”

“In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.”

“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”

“The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily.”

“No man loves life like him that's growing old.”

“They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.”

“Time eases all things.”

“There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.”

“A short saying often contains much wisdom.”

“War loves to seek its victims in the young.”

“Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.”

“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare — I have no use for him, either.”

“Children are the anchors of a mother's life.”

“Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.”

“"How about your service of Aphrodite, Sophocles—is your natural force still unabated?" And he replied, 'Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master."”

“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”

“Our ship of fate, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to harbor at last.”

“The truth is always the strongest argument.”

“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”

“Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.”

“Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
But when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.”

“It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.”

“For whoso lives, as I, in many woes,
How can it be but death shall bring him gain?”