A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.
AESCHYLUSThey 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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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
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Time brings all things to pass.
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A curse burns bright on crime
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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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If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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Suffering brings experience.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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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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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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