Honor modesty more than your life.
AESCHYLUSFor somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
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Simple is the speech of truth.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
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By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
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Don’t try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped.
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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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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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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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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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