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Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart it's burden of sorrow as I think back; I am ve...more

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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

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Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

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The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old a...more

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And empty words are evil.

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but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away

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The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.