So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when … - Aeschylus

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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

Aeschylus

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

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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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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

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Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

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