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.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
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.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
To learn is to be young, however old.
The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
Time cleanses what it touches over time.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.
Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.
The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.
Simple is the speech of truth.
Only through suffering do we learn
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
Know not to revere human things too much.
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
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