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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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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.
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There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.
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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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Only through suffering do we learn
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.
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Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.
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For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
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There is no avoidance in delay.
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For the mighty, even to give away is grace.
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To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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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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But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.
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On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.
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His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
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