“For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wealth
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“If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Moderation
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“Shoals of corpses shall witness, mute, even to generations to come, before the eyes of men that we ought never, being mortal, to cast our sights too high.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Moderation
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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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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“The best by far is to marry in one’s own rank.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“Ares, gold-changer of bodies.”
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“Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Government
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“The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Destiny
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“Or don’t you know, so exceedingly clever as you are, that a vain tongue must pay the penalty?”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Vanity
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“But time growing old teaches all things.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Experience
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“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Education
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“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom
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“Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom
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“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Success
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“We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“And she, after swan-like singing her last and dying song, lies beside him, her lover.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
