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Words are healers of the sick tempered.

Aeschylus

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Only through suffering do we learn
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Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory against our pleasure we are temperate.
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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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If you are not envied, you are not enviable.
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Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.
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From a just fraud God turneth not away.
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
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Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
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Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
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God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
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