"Words are the parents of a causeless wrath."
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"For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock."
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"The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice."
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"Time cleanses what it touches over time."
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"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers."
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"Old men are always young enough to learn with profit."
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"In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain."
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"Myriad laughter of the ocean waves."
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"But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow."
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"For hostile word let hostile word be paid."
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"For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory."
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"The man who does ill, ill must suffer too."
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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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"For a single path leads to the house of Hades."
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"For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame."
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"Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?"
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"Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart."
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"Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves."
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"Fear is stronger than arms."
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"They who prosper take on airs of vanity."
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