Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
AESCHYLUSIt is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
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Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
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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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By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn.
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Know not to revere human things too much.
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When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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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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