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From such honor and such a height of fortune am I, thus fallen to earth, cast down amongst mortals.

ἐξ οἵης τιμῆς τε καὶ ὅσσου μήκεος ὄλβου
ὧδε [πεσὼν κατὰ γαῖαν] ἀναστρέφομαι μετὰ θνητοῖς.

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Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable is he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.

But what is lawful for all extends across wide-ruling aether and, without cease, through endless sunshine.

Nothing of the All is either empty or superfluous.

For already, sometime, I have been a boy and a girl, a shrub, a bird, and a silent fish in the sea.

Fools -- for their thoughts are not well-considered who suppose that not-being exists or that anything dies and is wholly annihilated.

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