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Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
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Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.
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It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.
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Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.
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