"The morn, look you, furthers a man on his road, and furthers him too in his work."

Works and Days. Line 579.

"Observe moderation. In all, the fitting season is best."

Works and Days. Line 694.

"Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong."

Works and Days. Line 707.

"Wine is wont to show the mind of man."

Maxims. Line 500.

"No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth."

Maxims. Line 725.

"I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil."

Suppliants, 453.

""Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."

Suppliants, 707.

"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased."

Prometheus, 378.

"Time as he grows old teaches many lessons."

Prometheus, 981.

"God's mouth knows not to utter falsehood, but he will perform each word."

Prometheus, 1032.

"Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old."

Agamemnon, 584.

"Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. . . . I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade."

Agamemnon, 832.

"Exiles feed on hope."

Agamemnon, 1668.

"Success is man's god."

Choephoræ, 59.

"So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.""

Frag. 135 (trans. by Plumptre).

"Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof."

Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).

"O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse."

Frag. 250 (trans. by Plumptre).

"A prosperous fool is a grievous burden."

Frag. 383.

"Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart."

Frag. 384.

"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."

Frag. 385.

"Think not that thy word and thine alone must be right."

Antigone, 706.

"Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot."

Electra, 1007.

"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."

Trachiniæ, 1.

"In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong."

OEdipus Coloneus, 880.

"A lie never lives to be old."

Acrisius. Frag. 59.

"Nobody loves life like an old man."

Acrisius. Frag. 63.

"A short saying oft contains much wisdom."

Aletes. Frag. 99.

"Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all."

Hipponous. Frag. 280.

"It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced."

Peleus. Frag. 445.

"War loves to seek its victims in the young."

Scyrii. Frag. 507.

"If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief."

Scyrii. Frag. 510.

"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life."

Phædra. Frag. 619.

"The truth is always the strongest argument."

Phædra. Frag. 737.

"The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily."

Phædra. Frag. 809.

"Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted."

Phædra. Frag. 842.

"No oath too binding for a lover."

Phædra. Frag. 848.

"Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand."

Phædra. Frag. 854.

"A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck."

Phædra. Frag. 862.

"If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles."

Vit. Anon. p. 64 (Plumptre's Trans.).

"Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them."

Alcestis. 669.

"The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them."

Medea. 618.

"Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven."

Medea. 636.

"I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment."

Medea. 1078.

"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change."

Iphigenia in Tauris. 721.

"Slowly but surely withal moveth the might of the gods."

Bacchæ. 882.

"Thou didst bring me forth for all the Greeks in common, not for thyself alone."

Iphigenia in Aulis. 1386.

"Slight not what 's near through aiming at what 's far."

Rhesus. 482.

"The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate."

Ægeus. Frag. 7.

"A bad beginning makes a bad ending."

Æolus. Frag. 32.

"Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks."

Æolus. Frag. 38.