But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
AESCHYLUSFor it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
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Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
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A curse burns bright on crime
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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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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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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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