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Aeschylus
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Elefsina
Æschylus
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God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
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To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
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I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
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In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.
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Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
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Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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The reward of suffering is experience
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Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
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Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
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But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.
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Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
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When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.
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