"A prosperous fool is a grievous burden."
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"What good is it to live a life that brings pains?"
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"Delay not to seize the hour!"
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"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."
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"For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone."
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"On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar."
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"God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard."
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"But let the good prevail."
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"For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends."
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"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"
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"The wisest of the wise may err."
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"I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils."
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"Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage."
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"The words of truth are simple."
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"Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees."
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"Know not to revere human things too much."
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"Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel."
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"Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been."
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"To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift."
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"Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win."
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