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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.
With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped
Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.
High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.
Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.
Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.
The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.
Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.
If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.
Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.
When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.
Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.