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Art is far feebler than necessity.

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Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.

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The words of truth are simple.

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The wisest of the wise may err.

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Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

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Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

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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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When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.

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In war the first casualty is the truth.

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The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

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My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.

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The reward of pain is experience.

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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

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

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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

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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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For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

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But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

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No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.

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