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Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

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Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

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Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.

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Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

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Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.

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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

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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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A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

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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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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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For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.

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Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

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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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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

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Sweet is a grief well ended.

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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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The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.

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

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