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“Know not to revere human things too much.”
“Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods.”
“Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.”
“Time brings all things to pass.”
“For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.”
“The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.”
“It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.”
“Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all. -Cassandra”
“A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.”
“Everyone's quick to blame the alien.”
“I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.”
“In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain”
“In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.”
“I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.”
“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”
“Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.”
“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”
“For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.”
“And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.”
“Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.”