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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

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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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For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

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Call no man happy till he is dead.

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On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

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The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

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It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too quick to shift From ground to ground; and swift indeed The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.

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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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I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

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Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

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When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

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The reward of pain is experience.

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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

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Simple is the speech of truth.

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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

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Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest.

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If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

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Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

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