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The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.
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Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.
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I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
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If you are not envied, you are not enviable.
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
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Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
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Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.
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But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness.
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For the mighty, even to give away is grace.
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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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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
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The reward of pain is experience.
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Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
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The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.
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Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.
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The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.
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The laws of a state change with the changing times.
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