“Courage, my daughter, courage; great still in heaven is Zeus, who sees and governs all.”

— Sophocles, Electra, lines 173-175, tr. R. C. Jebb, 1894

About Sophocles

497 BC – 406 BC

Greek tragedian, author of "Oedipus Rex" and "Antigone".

“No man loves life like him that's growing old.”

“Kindness begets kindness evermore.”

“For a day can humble all human beings, and a day can lift them up.”

“The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.”

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.”

“Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”

“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”

“The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.”

“There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.”