"Forget the brother and resume the man."
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"Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend."
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"Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind."
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"The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree."
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"Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born."
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"Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse."
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"The hearts of great men can be changed."
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"Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth."
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"A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar."
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"It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing."
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"I hate To tell again a tale once fully told."
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"No season now for calm, familiar talk."
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"Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round."
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"One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way."
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"Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy."
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"There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder."
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"The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men."
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"It is better to watch people do stuff than to do stuff."
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"Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead."
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"So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence."
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