For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

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Aeschylus (UK: , US: ; Ancient Greek: Αἰσχύλος Aischýlos; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading...

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Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

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But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

—Martha Nussbaum

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The skepticism of youth signals the beginning of a search for something actually worth trusting, both within one's own psyche and in the world. That's why teens, supposedly stuck in life's lost years, are often so unequivocal about what they love and what they hate, and so frustrated when they feel misunderstood. The adolescent spirit is not the spirit of the lost. It is the conviction that you are not lost—that wandering has a purpose, and that what you deserve more than anything is the freedom to walk awhile on your own path.

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You don't gain much in life if you never allow yourself to be vulnerable. Sometimes the best things in life happen when we open our hearts and give someone the opportunity to hurt us, and trust them not to, and they don't.

—Terry Bolryder in Bearlebrity

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I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No, the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors. To see beyond the relationships I once had.

—Jay Asher in Thirteen Reasons Why

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He doesn't love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn't know any better. When I trusted everyone. I'm not that person anymore.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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