It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
AESCHYLUSCourage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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We should know what is true before we break our rage.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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It 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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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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