Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
AESCHYLUSWe spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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There is no avoidance in delay.
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Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
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In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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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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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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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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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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