Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
AESCHYLUSIt 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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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn.
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Time brings all things to pass.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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The reward of suffering is experience.
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Fear is stronger than arms.
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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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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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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Know not to revere human things too much.
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