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

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Aeschylus
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Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.
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For a single path leads to the house of Hades.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
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Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.
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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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Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
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God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
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Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.
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Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.
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If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.
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Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness he will never be utterly destroyed.
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Truth is always the first casualty of war.
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As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.
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Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
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I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.
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A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.
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