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In every thing (circumstance) we should hold these maxims ready to hand:
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Lead me, O Zeus, and thou O Destiny,
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The way that I am bid by you to go:
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To follow I am ready. If I choose not,
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I make myself a wretch, and still must follow.
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But whoso nobly yields unto necessity,
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We hold him wise, and skill’d in things divine.
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And the third also: O Crito, if so it pleases the Gods, so let it be; Anytus and Melitus are able indeed to kill me, but they cannot harm me.
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