Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
AESCHYLUSWords are doctors for the diseased temper.
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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Time brings all things to pass.
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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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It is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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