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By their own follies they perished, the fools.
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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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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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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
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Gray-eyed Athena sent them a favorable breeze, a fresh west wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.
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The immortals will send you to the Elysian plain at the ends of the earth, where fair-haired Rhada-manthys is. There life is supremely easy for men. No snow is there, nor ever heavy winter storm, nor rain, and Ocean is ever sending gusts of the clear-blowing west wind to bring coolness to men.
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Down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms
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But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.
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Then dark death seized Argus, as soon as he had seen Odysseus in the twentieth year.
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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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You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
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Even if you gods, and all the goddesses too, should be looking on, yet would I be glad to sleep with golden Aphrodite.
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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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Athene sent them a following breeze, a strong west wind that whistled over the wine-dark sea.
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It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.
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She [Helen] threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills.
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And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.
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No mortal could vie with Zeus, for his mansions and his possessions are deathless.
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All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
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Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.
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Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
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In the extravagance of her evil she has brought shame both on herself and on all women who will come after her, even on one who is virtuous.
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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
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There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.
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