What did Sophocles mean by: A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife. - Sophocles Playwright · Athens Copy
+ A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Sophocles, Prudent, 0 - Sophocles Playwright · Athens
+ One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Sophocles, Speak, Speech, 0 - Sophocles Playwright · Athens
+ The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Sophocles, Evil, Nurse, Soul, 0 - Sophocles Playwright · Athens
+ The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Sophocles, Eye, Sleep, 0 - Sophocles Playwright · Athens
+ If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Sophocles, Mad, 0 - Sophocles Playwright · Athens
+ Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Sophocles, 0 - Sophocles Playwright · Athens
+ Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Sophocles, Flow, Gratitude, 0 - Sophocles Playwright · Athens
+ Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Sophocles, Pain, Suffering, 0 - Sophocles Playwright · Athens
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
In art, theories are as useful as a doctor’s prescription; one must be sick to believe them. - Maurice de Vlaminck Painter · France
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France