It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
AESCHYLUSFor somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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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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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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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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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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