Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
AESCHYLUSThe anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
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When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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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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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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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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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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There is no avoidance in delay.
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