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Suffering brings experience.
Aeschylus
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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.
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Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
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[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.
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Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.
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It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.
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Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.
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Time brings all things to pass.
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Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.
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For the mighty, even to give away is grace.
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The unenvied man is not enviable.
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Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot for punishment will come upon you.
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The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.
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