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To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

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You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

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Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.

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

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When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

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So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

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To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

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If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

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Base men who prosper are unenviable.

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I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink.

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The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

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Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

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Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

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To many mortals silence great gain brings.

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It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

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Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.

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Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

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Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

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

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

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