"Base men who prosper are unenviable."
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"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow."
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"Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering."
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"For know that no one is free, except Zeus."
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"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."
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"Only through suffering do we learn"
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"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased."
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"Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments."
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"Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods."
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"For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word."
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"The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen."
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"God always strives together with those who strive."
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"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."
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"It is best for the wise man not to seem wise."
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"Do not kick against the pricks."
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"The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom."
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"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."
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"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls."
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"Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery."
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"When a man's willing and eager the god's join in."
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