For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
AESCHYLUSWisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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My will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
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The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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We should know what is true before we break our rage.
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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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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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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Suffering brings experience.
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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