Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
AESCHYLUSA 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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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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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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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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Simple is the speech of truth.
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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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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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My will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you.
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
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By time and age full many things are taught.
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
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