Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
AESCHYLUSBy the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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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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If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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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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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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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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