Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
EURIPIDESFriends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
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The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.
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Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
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Who then will dare to say I’m weak or timid? No, they’ll say I’m loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.
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The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
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Mortal fate is hard. You’d best get used to it.
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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
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My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.
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Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.
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The greatest pleasure of life is love.
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Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.
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Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.
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The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
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It’s the wise man who stays home when he’s drunk.
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He is not a lover who does not love forever.
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My love for you was greater than my wisdom.
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Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.
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This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.
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Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.
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I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
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The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
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The good and wise lead quite lives.
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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
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Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.
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