A curse burns bright on crime
AESCHYLUSGod’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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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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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
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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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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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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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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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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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