“Evil seems good, soon or late, to him whose mind the god draws to mischief.”

— Sophocles, Antigone, lines 622-624, tr. R. C. Jebb, 1893

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.”

“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”

“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”

“For God made all mankind to be happy, to be serene.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“Remember that all is opinion.”