Silence is an ornament for women.
SophoclesRead
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Interpretation
Grief can challenge even the most composed individuals, causing them to become unstable.
The quote by Sophocles suggests that grief is a powerful emotion that can impact anyone, regardless of their usual mental strength or resilience. It highlights the universal nature of grief and how it can shake our foundation, making us more vulnerable and reminding us that even the steadiest minds can falter in times of deep sorrow.
In practice
During a speech at a memorial service.
Silence is an ornament for women.
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")
We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'
The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'
Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.
An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.
History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.
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