Sweet is a grief well ended.
AESCHYLUSThe high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
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Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
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In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
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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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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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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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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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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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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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