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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. - [Fools] Everyone's quick to blame the alien. - [Blame] Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind. - [Kindness] Excessive fear is always powerless. - [Fear] His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be. - [Bravery] I know how men in exile feed on dreams. - [Exile] I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils. - [Evil] In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. - [Tyranny] It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. - [Advice] It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. - [Oaths] Memory is the mother of all wisdom. - [Memory] Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy. - [Prosperity] The laws of a state change with the changing times. - [Law] The wisest of the wise may err. - [Error] There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. - [Grief] There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. - [Lying] Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood. - [Power] Wiles and deceit are female qualities. - [Deceit] Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. - [Words] It is always in season for old men to learn. - Agamemnon [Age : Learning] Suffering brings experience. - Agamemnon (185) [Experience] Fountains of tears. [Lat., Fons lacrymarum.] - Agamemnon (861) [Tears] It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. - Agamemnon (884), (adapted) [Misfortune] Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being. - Agamemnon (928) [Happiness] Call no man happy till he is dead. - Agamemnon (938), earliest reference [Death] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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