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Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Aeschylus

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Aeschylus
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ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.
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What exists outside is a man's concern let no woman give advice and do no mischief within doors.
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Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
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There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
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Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
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The reward of suffering is experience
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.
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My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.
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Success is man's god.
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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
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There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.
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He hears but half who hears one party only.
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Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?
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To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
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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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For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
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Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
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