But let the good prevail.
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.
It is through suffering that learning comes.
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.
But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.
For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
The reward of suffering is experience
Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.
They who prosper take on airs of vanity.
Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
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