“Beat, beat the crownless head,
Rend the cheek till the tears run red!
O thou whose wound was deepest,
Thou that my children keepest
Gather me where thou sleepest.”

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“How are ye blind, ye treaders down of cities,
Ye that cast temples to desolation and lay waste tombs,
The untrodden sanctuaries where lie
The ancient dead; yourselves so soon to die.”

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“Of all things that have life and sense, we women are the most hapless creatures; first must we buy a husband at great price, and then o'er ourselves a tyrant set, which is an evil worse than the first.”

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“Oh vain is man who glories in his joy and has no fears, while to and fro the chances of the years dance like an idiot in the wind!”

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“Oh vain is man,
Who glories in his joy and has no fears;
While to and fro the chances of the years
Dance like an idiot in the wind!”

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“our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes”

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“Sail with the stream, and follow fortune’s tack, steer not your ship of life against the tide, since chance must guide thy course.”

Chapters: 57. Wu Wei

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“That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation”

Chapters: 24. Unnecessary Baggage

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“To die is only not to be
Fallen from peace. All that men praise us for...
The thoughts of mine own heart, I craved no more.”

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“What else but tears is now my hapless lot, whose country, children, husband, all are lost”

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“Euripides saw war as completely evil and he wrote the greatest anti-war piece of literature there is, the Trojan Women, but from first to last, he never mounts the pulpit.”

— Edith Hamilton 1867 – 1963 CE
from Roman Way

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