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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Chorus Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory against our pleasure we are temperate.
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