"I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence."
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"Truth is always the first casualty of war."
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"God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause."
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"Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might."
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"The man whose authority is recent is always stern."
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"For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things."
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"Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new."
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"The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it."
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"Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped"
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"Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice."
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"When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along."
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"You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet."
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"The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance."
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"Even the old should learn."
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"I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths."
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"Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted."
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"Sweet is a grief well ended."
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"Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day."
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"Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune."
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"For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice."
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