"There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor."
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"Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest."
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"As long as there are men the bulwark is safe."
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"For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying."
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"Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say."
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"From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof."
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"Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate."
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"The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship."
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"Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things."
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"Honor modesty more than your life."
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"The force of necessity is irresistible."
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"Words are healers of the sick tempered."
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"Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends."
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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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"It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill."
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"For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?"
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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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"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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"Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee."
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"I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits."
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