In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
AESCHYLUSIt is always in season for old men to learn.
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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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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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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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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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Honor modesty more than your life.
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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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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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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A curse burns bright on crime
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
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