Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
AESCHYLUSWhen a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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By time and age full many things are taught.
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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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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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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 it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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