Danh ngôn của Sophocles (Sứ mệnh: 4)

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Without labor nothing prospers.
Success is dependent on effort.
Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
There is no success without hardship.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
Who seeks shall find.
Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
No lie ever reaches old age.
Silence is an ornament for women.
Always desire to learn something useful.
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
God's dice always have a lucky roll.
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.