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May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
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Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.
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Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
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Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
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Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
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So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace – neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.
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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
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The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
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