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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Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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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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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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Suffering brings experience.
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In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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Don’t try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped.
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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