The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
AESCHYLUSIt is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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Suffering brings experience.
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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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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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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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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Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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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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Honor modesty more than your life.
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