Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
AESCHYLUSWho, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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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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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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By time and age full many things are taught.
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Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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The reward of suffering is experience.
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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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To learn is to be young, however old.
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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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Simple is the speech of truth.
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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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