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Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

Aeschylus

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Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.
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There is no avoidance in delay.
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For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.
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You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.
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You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
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With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
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Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
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What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
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