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Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.

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Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.
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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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Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
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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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Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.
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And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.
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God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
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For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.
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The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.
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Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.
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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
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The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.
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Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
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