It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
AESCHYLUSIn the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
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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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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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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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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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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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Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.
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When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
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