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For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and
Man
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You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one
man
a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another the lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
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I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a
man
without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old
man
is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
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I would rather be tied to the soil as another
man
's serf, even a poor
man
's, who hadn't much to live on himself, than be King of all these the dead and destroyed.
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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise
man
to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
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Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering
man
who comes in weariness?
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Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a
man
's cursed appetite.
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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as
man
and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
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Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a
man
's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
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I have gone through what no other mortal on earth has gone through;
I put my lips to the hands of the
man
who has killed my children.
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He was a wealthy
man
, and kindly to his fellow men; for dwelling in a house by the side of the road, he used to entertain all comers.
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A young
man
is embarrassed to question an older one.
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Surely there is nothing more wretched than a
man
, of all the things which breathe and move upon the earth.
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To labour is the lot of
man
below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
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There is nothing alive more agonized than
man
/ of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow
man
catches up with the swift.
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Nothing feebler does earth nurture than
man
, Of all things breathing and moving.
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Tell me, muse, of the
man
of many resources who wandered far and wide after he sacked the holy citadel of Troy, and he saw the cities and learned the thoughts of many men, and on the sea he suffered in his heart many woes.
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Without a sign, his sword the brave
man
draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
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A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a
man
to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
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