But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
AESCHYLUSAgainst necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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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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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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A curse burns bright on crime
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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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Simple is the speech of truth.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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We should know what is true before we break our rage.
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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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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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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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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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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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