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Be it mine to draw from wisdo...

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

Aeschylus 389 quotes

Better to die on your feet th...

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

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Wisdom comes through sufferin...

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

Aeschylus 389 quotes

Human prosperity never rests ...

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

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A man dies not for the many w...

A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

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Arrogance is truly the child ...

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

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For mortal kind taketh though...

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

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I pray the gods some respite ...

I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

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Nor does night conceal men's ...

Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

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But who can describe the over...

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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You'll see all other mortal s...

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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[Hermes addresses Prometheus ...

[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 reward of suffering is ex...

The reward of suffering is experience

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The holy heaven yearns to wou...

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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There's only few people who h...

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

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The so-called mother of the c...

The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

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O Death the Healer, scorn tho...

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

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God's mouth knows not how to ...

God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

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The great and amorous sky cur...

The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

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But I will place this careful...

But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.

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