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Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.

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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
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From a just fraud God turneth not away.
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Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
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The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.
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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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By Time and Age full many things are taught.
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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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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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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.
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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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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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Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
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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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No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.
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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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