Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
AESCHYLUSIf a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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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 the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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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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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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Know not to revere human things too much.
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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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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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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