Honor modesty more than your life.
AESCHYLUSHis resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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The reward of suffering is experience.
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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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Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
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