"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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"The best by far is to marry in one's own rank."
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"On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged."
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"Success is man's god."
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"Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods."
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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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"I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time."
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"If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks."
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"For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life."
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"Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray."
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"In the sinews of the dead there is no blood."
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"The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun."
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"Excessive fear is always powerless."
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"For children preserve the fame of a man after his death."
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"God ever works with those who work with will."
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"Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded."
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"To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile."
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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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"No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove."
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"Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right."
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