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Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

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What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

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Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

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From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

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Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

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It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too quick to shift From ground to ground; and swift indeed The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.

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If you are not envied, you are not enviable.

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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

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

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Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.

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For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

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They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

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Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

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The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun.

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