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Few men have the strength of character to rejoice in a friend's success without a touch of envy.

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Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

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Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

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Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

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Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

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God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

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

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For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

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Zeus, who guided mortals to be wise,
has established his fixed law—
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
seated on their solemn thrones—
such grace is harsh and violent.

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I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

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But when the dust has drunk the blood of men,
No resurrection comes for one who's dead.

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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

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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, doglike, I have kept, marking the conclave of all the 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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For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

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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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Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

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The lust for power never dies—men cannot have enough.

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