"For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night."

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

"Closer, it's all right. Touch the man of grief.Do. Don't be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am the only man alive who can sustain them."

"Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness."

"No lie ever reaches old age."

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

"No man loves the bearer of bad tidings."

"OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom! If with my knowledge he lives at my hearthI pray that I myself may feel my curse. On you I lay my charge to fulfill all this for me, for the God, and for this land of ours destroyed and blighted, by the God forsaken."

"When trouble ends even troubles please."

"Those swift to think are not always secure."

"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."

"When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death?Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said."

"Who seeks shall find."

"To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away."

"Shall not ILearn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,Only so much to hate my enemy,As though he might again become my friend,And so much good to wish to do my friend,As knowing he may yet become my foe?"

"If you try to cure evil with evilyou will add more pain to your fate."

"How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time."

"Children are the anchors of a mother's life."

"To him who is in fear everything rustles."

"It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it."

"What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!"

"A day lays low and lifts up again all human things."

"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."

"It is terrible to speak well and be wrong."

"Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad."

"A human being is only breath and shadow."

“Prefiero, señor, obrar bien y fracasar antes que triunfar con malas artes. Palabras de Neoptólemo a Odiseo, en la tragedia griega Filoctetes.”

"Not to be born is, past all prizing, best."

"Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure."

"Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver."

"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good."

"Evil counsel travels fast."

"Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?"

"It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth."

"When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse."

"Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong."

"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad."

"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."

"A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist."

"CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him!Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain."

"Much wisdom often goes with fewest words."

"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."

"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."

"I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards-all that your can do is to have me killed."

"Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friendsor a share in their grief?"

"For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty."

"It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not."

"If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too."

"It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm."