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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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Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.

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For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

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Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

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To learn is to be young, however old.

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With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

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. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.

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

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We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

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The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

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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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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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For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

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Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

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By Time and Age full many things are taught.

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Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

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High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.

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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

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Ask the gods nothing excessive.

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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

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