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When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.

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No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.
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In war the first casualty is the truth.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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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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Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?
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The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
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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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