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They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

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Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.

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Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

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They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

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I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

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Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

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On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

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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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When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

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The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

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In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.

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

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Only through suffering do we learn

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If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

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

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For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.

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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

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. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.

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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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For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

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