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Sophocles Quotes about Kindness

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

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

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

Sophocles (1872). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: In English Prose”, p.309

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.38, University of Chicago Press