Burden of thoughts. Helmut Lauschke

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       (Sophocles 496-406 BC) Sophocles lived in Athens, where he was one of the three great classical tragedy poets alongside Aeschylus and Euripides; he performed in some of his plays himself. Sophocles held high state offices several times: he was treasurer of the Attic League, strategist alongside Pericles, member of the oligarchical government and priest of Asclepius. As a poet, he contributed to the further development of Attic tragedy. Significant innovations include the introduction of the third actor, the expansion of the choir from 12 to 15 members and the introduction of painted sets. Sophocles detached the individual plays from the context of the trilogy. 123 of his pieces are known by title, but only 7 pieces, which are characterized by the design of the individual personalities, have been completely preserved: "Aias", "Antigone", "Elektra", "King Oedipus", "Trachinierinnen", " Philoctetes "and" Oedipus on Colonus ". A papyrus find added 400 verses, about half of the satyr play “Ichneutai” (sniffer dogs).

       Quotes: No human life is free from calamity. But from now on and all future as before the law lasts. Those who are absent without intent will receive a mild judgment. How quickly people's thanks disappear - and ingratitude becomes. What are you wearing that is more than human? The gods implanted reason in man as the highest of all goods. Because where the evil deed has the attitude towards the mother, other evil deeds follow her as siblings. The sick person is sleepless. The burden of old age is alien only to the gods. Don't try to hide anything, because time, which sees and hears everything, reveals it. Happy to whom the gods gave clear meaning to all gifts. According to your own law, like none of the mortals, you step down alive to Hades. I don't like love who loves with words. Talking a lot and saying a lot are not one thing. Anyone who experienced happiness should never be stingy with happiness. For whoever thinks himself insightful reveals himself to be empty when viewed with light. It takes a long time to go a short way. The gods fall, rise again. Ideas are stronger than physical strength.

      The idea is stronger than physical strength, everything else does not weigh more than a layer of snow that thaws away under the first ray of sun, so muscle strength has no other choice.

      People should remember this in good time, when at daybreak they have to strengthen themselves for the work that is uploaded in front of them and is already difficult to take on responsibility.

      May the gods overthrow arrogant people who sit grandly over dumb peoples, not to pull them out of distress and misery, but to flee with wealth in more security.

      Gods tear down with hammer blows and angry faces, what arises, opposes the high court of justice, because whatever mouths babble, boast, talk badly, children quickly get to the point of falsehood.

      May one call himself clever and insightful when the things of cleverness run out of his head, it is the conceit of sublimity and naked stupidity in the field of simple thinking with dumbness.

      Nothing has changed when people speak things that they do not understand, only to arrogantly avenge themselves on the better behavior of others with more understanding, which they do not understand in arrogance that is known.

      So many stay talking for hours, weeks and years, because without insight they have nothing to say about the core of things. What is missing, in addition to the lack of honesty, is a good education, which is why they thresh empty pods to the point of crazy rapture.

      Whether something will change in this behavior of the nonsense is written in the stars alongside the other things of nonsense. It remains to be seen, in excess of excessive tolerance, how long the train of mismatched wagons will continue to travel such distant places.

      Indeed: He is happy to be praised whom has given the gods the clear meaning of all gifts despite sharpened contradictions. The mercy of the highest creator comes into play here, who sets the good in man against doubt with questions.

      The size is just different from what the person imagines, who wishes that it is him who is at the top in the shine. No, it's not him in his jostling for fame and power, that's what the dream tells him in the hours of the night.

      The temptation is as old as there are people on the planet to hide and cover up what may harm vanity. But don't do it, because time sees and hears everything, it reveals it, whereas you cannot reach your vulnerability and weakness.

      The burden of old age is alien only to the gods. So people know about it and suffer from it the more unbearable the burden becomes. Children may have the divine because they too are alien to the burden of old age, unless they are already deep in the misery of poverty.

      When people bear the burden of arching their backs, then the question arises who put the burden on them for the rest of their lives. The uneducated mind gives the answer: the burden comes from people, because it’s not the gods who put the heavy burden on people.

      The gods implant reason in man so that he can stand and walk straight, when he carries the weight of the task with diligence and responsibility through life with decency and righteousness, whereby the divine spirit gives him the advice and direction to do so to do.

      Finally, in the age of humility, the human mind understands that there is no life that is to be fulfilled without suffering and calamity. From time immemorial and into the future, this has been the law that man has to understand and accept through and through.

      Anyone who is missing and notices it late is faced with the difficult decision of checking whether he did it intentionally or purely by mistake, because both are negative and yet are fundamentally different in approach when the soul stretches for the good on the other hand not.

      After all, it is reason as the greatest gift of the gods that makes the decision between good and evil and marks the path to be recognized and straight to go when it concerns humanity and its great concern, as it does with life go on.