Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
AESCHYLUSFor somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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The reward of suffering is experience.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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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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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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