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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

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A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

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Do not kick against the pricks.

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May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

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For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

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God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

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Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

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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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For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

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Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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