The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

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Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

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He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

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In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.

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It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

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Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

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A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

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Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.

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He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

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