Kindness gives birth to kindness. Sophocles More Quotes by Sophocles More Quotes From Sophocles The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear. Sophocles crushgearsgreek Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women. Sophocles silentforgivenesssilence Time is a kindly God. Sophocles time In season, all is good. Sophocles timelinessseasonsgood-times The truth is ever best. Sophocles truth-istruth Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things. Sophocles evilmothermen The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent. Sophocles expectationsjoypast Better to die, and sleep Sophocles soulsuicidesleep All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. Sophocles evilwishmen Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. Sophocles deceivergratitudeflow Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships. Sophocles fatedarkwar Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune. Sophocles misfortunesflyingwind Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice. Sophocles limitsjusticechildren Wise thinkers prevail everywhere. Sophocles thinkerwise When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live. Sophocles joymenbelieve Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice. Sophocles smartgriefchoices No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life. Sophocles marriagewisemen Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall? Sophocles blessingmenfall To revive sorrow is cruel. Sophocles revivesorrow We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint. Sophocles goalevilrunning
