Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
AESCHYLUSIt is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.
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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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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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By time and age full many things are taught.
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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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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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It is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
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Simple is the speech of truth.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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