Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
AESCHYLUSI have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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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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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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By time and age full many things are taught.
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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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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.
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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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