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μηδέ μοι ἄκλαυστος θάνατος μόλοι, ἀλλὰ φίλοισι καλλείποιμι θανὼν ἄλγεα καὶ στοναχάς –> may death not come to me without tears, but when I die may I leave my friends with sorrow and lamentation

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τὸ δὲ μέλλον ἀκριβῶς οἶδεν οὐδεὶς θνατὸς ὅπᾳ φέρεται → but as for the future no mortal knows for certain where he is bound

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ἄριστα χωλὸς οἰφεῖ → a lame man makes the best lover, a lame man screws best, the lame man fucks best

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εἰπὼν ἃ θέλεις, ἀντάκουε ἃ μὴ θέλεις –> if you say what you want, hear in response what you don't want

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ἐρωτοπλοέω → sail on love's ocean

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ἡ ὑπόστασίς μου ὡσεὶ οὐθὲν ἐνώπιόν σου → my life is as nothing in respect to you, my life is nothing in thy reckoning

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μνήσθητι τίς μου ἡ ὑπόστασις → remember how short my time is

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καλῶς γέ μου τὸν υἱὸν ὦ Στιλβωνίδη εὑρὼν ἀπιόντ' ἀπὸ γυμνασίου λελουμένον οὐκ ἔκυσας, οὐ προσεῖπας, οὐ προσηγάγου, οὐκ ὠρχιπέδισας, ὢν ἐμοὶ πατρικὸς φίλος –> Ah! Is this well done, Stilbonides? You met my son coming from the bath after the gymnasium and you neither spoke to him, nor kissed him, nor took him with you, nor ever once felt his balls. Would anyone call you an old friend of mine?

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ἅτε γὰρ ἐννάλιον πόνον ἐχοίσας βαθύν σκευᾶς ἑτέρας, ἀβάπτιστος εἶμι φελλὸς ὣς ὑπὲρ ἕρκος ἅλμας –> for just as when the rest of the tackle labors in the depths of the sea, like a cork I shall go undipped over the surface of the brine | as when the other part of the tackle is laboring deep in the sea, I go unsoaked like a cork above the surface of the sea

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ἐν μὲν γὰρ εἰρήνῃ καὶ ἀγαθοῖς πράγμασιν αἵ τε πόλεις καὶ οἱ ἰδιῶται ἀμείνους τὰς γνώμας ἔχουσι διὰ τὸ μὴ ἐς ἀκουσίους ἀνάγκας πίπτειν –> in peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities

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λύχνον μεθ' ἡμέραν ἅψας περιῄει λέγων "ἄνθρωπον ζητῶ" –> he lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a man"

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τὸ ἀεὶ ταῦτα οὕτως ἔχειν ἐχάλασαν → relaxed the strictness of the doctrine of perpetual strife

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κόραξ δ' ἐπαίνῳ καρδίην ἐχαυνώθη → the flattered crow was filled with pride, the flattered crow became elate in heart

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τὸ μὲν εὖ πράσσειν ἀκόρεστον ἔφυ πᾶσι βροτοῖσιν → all mortals have by nature an insatiable appetite for success, our mortal state with bliss is never satiate, success is something for which humanity is insatiatable

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πεσούσης νυκτός, πάσα γυνὴ Λαΐς εστί –> at nightfall, every woman is a Laïs | all cats are gray at night | all cats are gray by night | all cats are gray in the dark | all cats are grey at night | all cats are grey by night | all cats are grey in the dark | all women look the same with the lights off | when lights are out all women look the same

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ἐὰν οὖν τὰ μαλακὰ σκληρῶς καὶ τὰ σκληρὰ μαλακῶς λέγηται, πιθανὸν γίγνεται –> but if, as a result, gentle things are said harshly and harsh things gently, the result is unpersuasive

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τὸν ἴδιον κίνδυνον ὑποθείς → at his own risk

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ἀπὸ λεπτοῦ μίτου τὸ ζῆν ἤρτηται → life hangs by a thin thread

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θανέειν ἱμείρεται → he longs to die, he yearns to die, longs to die, yearns to die

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λογισάμενος ὅτι καὶ ἐκ νεκρῶν ἐγεῖραι δυνατὸς ὁ Θεός → in the belief that God was able to raise him up from the dead

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