One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. – Sophocles
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. – Sophocles
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. – Sophocles
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it. – Sophocles
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him. – Sophocles
Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is. – Sophocles
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. – Sophocles