Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.
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For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain And twins even from the birth are Misery and Man.Homer
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
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We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
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The women of Greece count their age from their marriage, not from their birth
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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
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