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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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The unenvied man is not enviable.

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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

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What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

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A great ox stands on my tongue.

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

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For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

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Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

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

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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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But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

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God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

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

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

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

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Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

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