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This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.

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The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.

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As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.

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There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

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No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.

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Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

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I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

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Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

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Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

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Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

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A great ox stands on my tongue.

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It is always the season for the old to learn.

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Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

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What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

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The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.

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

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Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

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The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

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For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

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I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink.

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