Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
AESCHYLUSLearn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
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Honor modesty more than your life.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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By time and age full many things are taught.
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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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