When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
AESCHYLUSWho, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
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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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Suffering brings experience.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
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