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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.
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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
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Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.
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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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The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.
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For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
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So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
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Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.
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Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness he will never be utterly destroyed.
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Know not to revere human things too much.
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In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.
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Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.
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The reward of pain is experience.
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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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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Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
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We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
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The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
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There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
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