"It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man."
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"Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old."
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"There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain."
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"But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man."
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"Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen."
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"We shall perish by guile just as we slew."
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"Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers."
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"My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair."
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"[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak."
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"Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety."
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"Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?"
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"The reward of pain is experience."
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"By Time and Age full many things are taught."
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"Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community."
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"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."
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"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget."
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"He hears but half who hears one party only."
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"It is always in season for old men to learn."
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"The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus."
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"There is no avoidance in delay."
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