"One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
"Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied."
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Source: Sophocles (1848). “Sophocles”, p.122
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