It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

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• Sophocles:

  Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

• Sophocles:

  Who seeks shall find.

• Sophocles:

  Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

• Sophocles:

  One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

• Sophocles:

  There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease

• Sophocles:

  He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

• Sophocles:

  There is no greater evil than anarchy.

• Sophocles:

  All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

• Sophocles:

  Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

• Sophocles:

  A man growing old becomes a child again.