Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1911 — THOUGHTS FROM SOPHOCLES [ARTICLE]

THOUGHTS FROM SOPHOCLES

A lie never lives to be old. No cath is too binding for a lover. Nobody loves life like an old man. The dice of Zens fall ever luckily. . Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand. War loves to seek its victims in the young. The truth is always the strongest argument. Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted. Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced. c ' Y-’. p.- » A short saying oft contains much wisdom. In a Jubt cause the weak o'ercome the strong. Think not that thy word and thine alone must be right Do nothing secretly, for time sees and hears all things and discloses all. Death is not the worst evil; bnt rather when we wish t to die gnd cannot < , vj If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles. " ▲ wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck. If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief. * There is an ancient saying famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched. »