Sophocles Quotes about Giving

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

Inspirational, Kindness, Giving

Sophocles, Robert POTTER (Prebendary of Norwich.) (1813). “The Tragedier of Sophocles; Translated by R. Potter. A New Edition”, p.260

Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.

Sophocles

Life, Live Life, Giving

Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease.

Sophocles

Sleep, Medicine, Giving

Philoctetes 766 (transl. F. Storr)

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Sophocles

Gratitude, Giving, Birth

It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.

Sophocles

Happiness, Fate, Giving

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.33, University of Chicago Press

Silence gives the proper grace to women

Sophocles

Giving, Silence, Grace

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

Sophocles

Father, Opportunity, Giving

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles”

To women silence gives their proper grace.

Sophocles

Giving, Silence, Grace

Sophocles (1820). “Tragedies”, p.251

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Sophocles

Laughter, Children, Giving