Milk the ewe that thou hast, why pursue the thing that shuns thee?
τὰν παρεοῖσαν ἄμελγε· τί τὸν φεύγοντα διώκεις
Original text (Ancient Greek)
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While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none.
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