Know not to revere human things too much.
AESCHYLUSWisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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There is no avoidance in delay.
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When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
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A curse burns bright on crime
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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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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Honor modesty more than your life.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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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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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
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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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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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My will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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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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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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