"When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime."
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"Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end."
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"To many mortals silence great gain brings."
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"It is through suffering that learning comes."
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"Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse."
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"I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged."
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"There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart."
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"Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host."
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"Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind."
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"Suffering brings experience."
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"Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?"
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"If you are not envied, you are not enviable."
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"Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger."
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"Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for."
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"But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead."
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"By suffering comes wisdom."
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"When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these."
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"The laws of a state change with the changing times."
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"Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood."
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"Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another."
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