Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
AESCHYLUSJustice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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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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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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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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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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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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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
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