It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
AESCHYLUSI gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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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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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
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If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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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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Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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