TECMESSA: Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles (496-406 BC) Greek tragic playwright

Ajax

Alt. trans.:

• "For it is always kindness which breeds kindness." [tr. Garvie (1998), ll. 522-23]
• "Kindness begets kindness." [tr. Golder & Pevear (1999), l. 584]
• "'Tis kindness that still begets kindness." [tr. Jebb (1917), ll. 521-22]
• "For kindness begets kindness evermore." [tr. Trevelyan (1919)]