By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
AESCHYLUSWisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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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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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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Don’t try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped.
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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Suffering brings experience.
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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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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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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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