On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar. - Aeschylus

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I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.

Aeschylus

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

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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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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

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It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

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