But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
AESCHYLUSThe anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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My will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you.
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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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By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
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Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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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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