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Book III, line 661 | Note: These words also appear in a fragmentary poem attributed to Petronius (Fragm. 22. 1)
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Pleasant is it to the unhappy to speak, and to recall the sorrows of old time.
It was forbidden to man to know what to-morrow's day would bring.
And bold Stesichorus and rash Sappho, who feared not Leucas but took the manly leap.
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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
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