Silence is an ornament for women.
SophoclesRead
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Interpretation
True friendship is founded on the ability to both give and receive kindness.
This quote by Sophocles emphasizes that the essence of friendship lies not in material possessions but in the mutual capacity for kindness. A friend who can exhibit compassion and accept kindness in return creates a deeper bond than any material wealth could provide.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of relationships, one might quote this to highlight the value of kindness in friendship.
Silence is an ornament for women.
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.
In the Friend-place nothing true can be said. Let Me Just Be Here.
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'
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