What did Sophocles mean by: It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. - Sophocles Playwright · Athens Copy
+ Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Sophocles, Hands, Mourning, Weeping, 0 - Sophocles Playwright · Athens
+ Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain? Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Sophocles, Dying, Evil, Uprising, 0 - Sophocles Playwright · Athens
+ Of no mortal say, ‘That man is happy,’ till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life’s goal. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Sophocles, Goal, 0 - Sophocles Playwright · Athens
+ 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
+ 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
+ We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Sophocles, Memories, Time, Waiting, 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
+ Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Sophocles, Alone Time, 0 - Sophocles Playwright · Athens
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. - François Rabelais Author · France
Everyone, when there’s war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them. - Jean Plaidy Author · England
When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour. - Jean-Baptiste Say Economist · France
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
