Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable. - Euripides

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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

Euripides

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

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Leave no stone unturned.

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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

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God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

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