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When gods are contrary they stand by no one.

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All bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
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Conquer Endurance Fortune
Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.
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Broken Heart Memories Remember
Death twitches my ear, live he says – I am coming.
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Come Death Ear Live
Time passes irrevocably.
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One Liner Time
She has a human face and as far as the groin she is a girl with lovely breasts, but below she is a monstrous sea creature, her womb full of wolves
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Face Girl Human Sea She Women
No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.
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Learning Misfortune Relieve Strange Suffering
No day shall erase you from the memory of time.
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Erase Loneliness Memories Time
A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.
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Change Woman Women Empowerment
Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.
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Comfort Learning Men Pain Suffering
Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.
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Brave Death Deed Fame Gain Labor Lifetime Man Mankind Reality
Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.
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Cause Fate Fortunate Mind Power Terror
Fear reveals baseborn souls!
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Fear One Liner Reveal Soul
Each of us bears his own Hell.
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Hell One Liner
Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds.
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Cloud Earth Ground Rumor Start Voice Walk
It is easy to go down into Hell but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub.
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Air Climb Easy Hell Step
The noblest motive is the public good.
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Goodness Motive Noble One Liner Public
Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man’s mad desire become his god?
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Desire Fire God Heart Light Man
The dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.
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Darkness Head Incline Night Sky Sleep Stars
The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.
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Hope Philosophy
A shifty, fickle object is woman, always.
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Object Women
No other evil we know is faster than Rumor.
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Evil Fast One Liner Rumor
Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.
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Brave Death Deed Fame Gain Labor Lifetime Man Mankind Reality
When gods are contrary they stand by no one.
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Contrary God Stand
No benefits can be expected from war.
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Expectation War
I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
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Fear Gift
Time is flying never to return.
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Fly One Liner Return Time Wasted Time
Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
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Conceal Evil Growth Nourish

When gods are contrary they stand by no one.

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