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For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

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The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

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But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

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For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

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And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

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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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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

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Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

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Time cleanses what it touches over time.

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

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I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

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And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

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