God always strives together with those who strive.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.
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.
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
Delay not to seize the hour!
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.
"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.
Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.
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.
And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.
No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
For the mighty, even to give away is grace.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.
Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.
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