My will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you.
AESCHYLUSJoy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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Suffering brings experience.
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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
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By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
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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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The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
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When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
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Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
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By time and age full many things are taught.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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