Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
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