The Sophocles
The Sophocles
men intuition would-be
The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach
adversity sorrow causes
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
acting tests trials
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
gratitude giving birth
Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
unjust fraud secure
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
kindness real acceptance
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
grief worry causes
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
men good-man tasks
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
wickedness foolishness
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
children men age
A man growing old becomes a child again.
speaking-well speech terrible
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
grief sadness sorrow
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
sight darkness deeds
No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.
eye men justice
The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.