I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

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And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

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To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

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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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Cassandra: Pah! the house fumes with stench and spilth of blood.
Chorus: How? 'tis the smell of household offerings.

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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

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And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

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