Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.Aeschylus
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
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You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
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Drop, drop in our sleep, upon the heart sorrow falls, memory's pain, and to us, though against our very will, even in our own despite, comes wisdom by the awful grace of God. The above lines are from Edith Hamilton, translator, Three Greek Plays, p. 170 (1937). Other translations of this passage from Aeschylus vary. Robert F. Kennedy, delivering an extemporaneous eulogy to Martin Luther King, Jr., the evening of April 4, 1968, in Indianapolis, Indiana, said, 'Aeschylus wrote 'In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.' These words, lacking 'own,' have been used as one of the inscriptions at the Robert F. Kennedy gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery.
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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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Wisdom cometh by suffering.
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