Sophocles Quotes About Giving

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  • Silence gives the proper grace to women

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

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

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

  • Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.

    Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.307, Penguin
  • Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease.

    Philoctetes 766 (transl. F. Storr)
  • Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

  • To women silence gives their proper grace.

    Sophocles (1820). “Tragedies”, p.251
  • To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

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

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

  • Born: 498 BC
  • Died: 406 BC
  • Occupation: Playwright