The Sophocles
The Sophocles
pain fate evil
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
acting tests trials
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
success rewards toil
Success, remember is the reward of toil.
motivational aids fortune
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
truth prussia argument
The truth is always the strongest argument.
kindness real acceptance
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
unjust fraud secure
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
kindness goodness-and-kindness love-and-kindness
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
advice bad-advice hateful
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
speech wells one-thing
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
eye men justice
The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.
eye sight soul
As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!
support silence knows
Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
hell hades
For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.