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.
AESCHYLUS
Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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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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By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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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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Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
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Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
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Fear is stronger than arms.
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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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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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My will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you.
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