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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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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot for punishment will come upon you.
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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
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This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death
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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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To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
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The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.
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Time brings all things to pass.
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Take courage pain's extremity soon ends.
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Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.
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Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.
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Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.
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[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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They who prosper take on airs of vanity.
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The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.
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Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
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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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Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.
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