For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
AESCHYLUSFor wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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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 wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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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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Honor modesty more than your life.
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