A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
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You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
By their own follies they perished, the fools.
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens
Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.