It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
AESCHYLUSHorror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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My will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you.
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Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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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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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
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