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ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.

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Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

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It is always in season for old men to learn.

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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

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And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

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Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

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God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

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

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Excessive fear is always powerless.

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

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As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.

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Wisdom cometh by suffering.

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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

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Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

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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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Call no man happy till he is dead.

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