It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
Miserum est opus,
Igitur demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis fauces tedet.
Igitur demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis fauces tedet.
Original text (Latin)
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
One eyewitness weighs more than ten hearsays. Seeing is believing, all the world over.
Oh, are not the pleasures in life, in this daily round, trifling compared with the pains!
He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment.
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