Love, you mock us for your sport.
SOPHOCLESA man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
More Sophocles Quotes
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Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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