"TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom whenit brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew well, but had forgotten it,else I would not have come here."

"Haemon: No city is property of a single man.Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone."

"A fearful man is always hearing things."

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."

"One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try."

"There is a point at which even justice does injury."

"JOCASTA:So clear in this case were the oracles,so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;what God discovers need of, easilyhe shows to us himself."

"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

"Not even old age knows how to love death."

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future."

"A state is not a state if it belongs to one man."

"The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water."

"Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert."

"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."

"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear."

"Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly."

"Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it."

"Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere."

"A short saying often contains much wisdom."

"Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession."

"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms."

"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit."

"Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all."

"A lie never grows old."

"Wisdom is the most important part of happiness."

"There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick."

"No one who errs unwillingly is evil."

"One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been."

"Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always."

"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."

"The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship."

"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."

"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride."

"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."

"We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain."

"There is a time when even justice brings harm."

"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."

"A lie never lives to be old."

"Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution."

"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."

"Why should a man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can unthinking."

"Time, which sees all things, has found you out."

"Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty."

"To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task."

"There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money."

"Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself."

"Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day."

"It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done."

"Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the wrong is done, a mancan turn his back on folly, misfortune too,if he tries to make amends, however low he's fallen,and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornnessbrands you for stupidity - pride is a crime."