Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
AESCHYLUSArrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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Suffering brings experience.
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
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But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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Know not to revere human things too much.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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It is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
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They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
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The reward of suffering is experience.
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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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