Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
AESCHYLUSThere are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
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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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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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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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Know not to revere human things too much.
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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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