#gr

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. ↗

— Sophocles

#base #cities #corrupts #currency #deeds

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

— Sophocles

#dead #deceiver #flows #gratitude #how

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag. ↗

— Dawn French

#actual life #am #bag #grumpy #i

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly. ↗

— Sophocles

#grieve #hate #much #nor #them

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day. ↗

— Sophocles

#deed #going #ground #i #i see

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth. ↗

— Sophocles

#birth #gives #gratitude

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water. ↗

— Marilyn French

#drinks #everybody #geniuses #great #those

No one longs to live more than someone growing old. ↗

— Sophocles

#growing old #live #longs #more #old

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter! ↗

— Anna Freud

#everyone #grown #here #i #i am

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune. ↗

— Sophocles

#evil #fortune #greater #greater evil #men