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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

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No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.

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Wrong must not win by technicalities.

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

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Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

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

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For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

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For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.

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On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

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Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

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Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

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For the mighty, even to give away is grace.

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

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

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It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

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The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

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