For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
AESCHYLUSBut when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
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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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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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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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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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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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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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Suffering brings experience.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.
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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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