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- Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's…
- Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
- It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
- It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas…
- For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples…
- Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space…
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