If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

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Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

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There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

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Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

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If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.

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Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.

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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

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There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

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