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It is always in season for old men to learn.

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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

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The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

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The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.

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But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.

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Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.

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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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There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

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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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For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

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Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

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ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

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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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A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.

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Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

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Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

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Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

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To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

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The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

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