It is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
AESCHYLUSBy time and age full many things are taught.
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Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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Know not to revere human things too much.
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Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
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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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But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
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The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
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Give me an answer which is plain to understand.
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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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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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