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“Ever the river has risen and brought us the flood, the mayfly floating on the water.”
“As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he may do, it is but wind.”
“But you, Gilgamesh, let your belly be full, enjoy yourself always by day and by night!”
“Let your clothes be clean, let your head be washed, may you bathe in water!”
“Gaze on the child who holds your hand, let your wife enjoy your repeated embrace!”
“When the gods created mankind, death they dispensed to mankind, life they kept for themselves.”
“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”
“We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.”
“Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.”
“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.”
“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.”
“Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.”
“An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.”