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"The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love."
"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."
"Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed."
"So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten."
"But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up."
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."
"The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness."
"Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence."
"For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness."
"For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free."
"Time, waxing old, doth all things purify."
"Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts."
"Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting."
"Time brings all things to pass."
"Whoever is new to power is always harsh."
"The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger."
"To learn is to be young, however old."
"Simple is the speech of truth."
"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."
"In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house."