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To learn is to be young, however old.

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Aeschylus
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
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For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
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Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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For a single path leads to the house of Hades.
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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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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.
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Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.
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The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.
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The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.
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In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.
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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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For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.
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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.
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Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.
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