A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.
AESCHYLUSThere are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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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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In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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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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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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