“For kindness begets kindness evermore,
But he from whose mind fades the memory
Of benefits, noble is he no more.”

—  Sophocles , Ajax

χάρις χάριν γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τίκτουσ᾽ ἀεί
ὅτου δ᾽ ἀπορρεῖ μνῆστις εὖ πεπονθότος,
οὐκ ἂν γένοιτ᾽ ἔθ᾽ οὗτος εὐγενὴς ἀνήρ.
Source: Ajax, Lines 522-524

Original

χάρις χάριν γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τίκτουσ᾽ ἀεί<br/>ὅτου δ᾽ ἀπορρεῖ μνῆστις εὖ πεπονθότος,<br/>οὐκ ἂν γένοιτ᾽ ἔθ᾽ οὗτος εὐγενὴς ἀνήρ.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more." by Sophocles?
Sophocles photo
Sophocles 68
ancient Greek tragedian -496–-406 BC

Related quotes

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay photo

“I have not the Chancellor’s encyclopedic mind. He is indeed a kind of semi-Solomon. He half knows everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician

Letter to Macvey Napier (17 December 1830)

James MacDonald photo

“His disposition is kindness. His default action is for your benefit. He’s good! And someday you will taste it!”

James MacDonald (1960) American pastor

Source: Always True (Moody, 2011), p. 85

Bernard Cornwell photo

“He had no picture of her. She would be a memory that would fade as her warmth would fade, but would fade over the years, and he would forget the passion that gave life to this face.”

Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer

Major Richard Sharpe (describing his murdered wife, Teresa Moreno) p. 339
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Enemy (1984)

Douglas Adams photo
Jodi Picoult photo
Joseph Beuys photo
Letitia Elizabeth Landon photo

“I have such eagerness of hope
To benefit my kind;
And feel as if immortal power
Were given to my mind.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

Source: The Venetian Bracelet (1829), Lines of Life

Jimmy Buffett photo
John Dryden photo
Alfred, Lord Tennyson photo

Related topics