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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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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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The words of truth are simple.

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To learn is to be young, however old.

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I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

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Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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

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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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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

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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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Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

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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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But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

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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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Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.

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If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

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Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

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

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