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You may complain of adverse fortune, not
Lament. This is man's duty; weeping is
A quality bestowed on woman's nature.

Conqueri fortunam advorsam, non lamentari decet;
id viri est officium, fletus muliebri ingenio additust.

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Cp. Sophocles, Odysseus Acanthoplex

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O you soul-bending queen of all the world,
Eloquence!

Meanwhile the billows droop and drop, the winds
Fall quiet, the sea sinks soft.

Wherever all is well—there is one's native land.

Our country is wherever we are well off.

Ah! Did I save those men that they might be
Men who would ruin me?

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