For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
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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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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Give me an answer which is plain to understand.
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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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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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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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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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By time and age full many things are taught.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
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