The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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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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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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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Give me an answer which is plain to understand.
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When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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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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If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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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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Simple is the speech of truth.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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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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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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