Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.

Euripides
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  2. The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

  3. When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

  4. What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange...

  5. Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

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