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To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

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For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.
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They who prosper take on airs of vanity.
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Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.
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Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.
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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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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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For a single path leads to the house of Hades.
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Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.
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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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A great ox stands on my tongue.
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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
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Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.
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