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Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.
Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.
Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.
In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.
Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.
For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.
God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.
A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.
For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.
For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.
What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.