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I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

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When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

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For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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Call no man happy till he is dead.

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It is through suffering that learning comes.

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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

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By suffering comes wisdom.

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[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.

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Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest.

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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

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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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And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

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But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

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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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A great ox stands on my tongue.

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The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

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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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