Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
AESCHYLUSDeath is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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Suffering brings experience.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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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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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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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.
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By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
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Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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We should know what is true before we break our rage.
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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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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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There is no avoidance in delay.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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Time brings all things to pass.
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