In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
AESCHYLUSWisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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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 reward of suffering is experience.
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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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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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Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
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Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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