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Ambition (n.) is a quarrelsome eagerness for glory — one of three roads by which fools rush past the good, the others being undisciplined profit and the pleasures of the body.
Destiny (n.) is to be followed without hesitating wherever it has assigned you — and if you have turned bad and do not want to, you will follow all the same.
Disorder (n.) is raw material for God: he knows how to make the uneven even and put the disorderly in order, and even what is unloved is dear to him.
Evil (n.) is the single exception to God's rule: no deed happens on earth, in heaven or at sea without him, except what bad people do in their folly.
Folly (n.) wants the good but is carried now this way, now that, working hard for the very opposite of what it wants.
Good and evil (n.) have been fitted together by Zeus into one, so that a single everlasting reason runs through all things.
Heat (n.) is life itself: a heart plucked from an animal palpitates like fire, and whatever lives owes its life to the heat within it.
Honour (n.) runs both ways between gods and mortals: granted insight by Zeus, we pay it back by praising his works, as befits a mortal.
Ignorance (n.) is the ruin of mortals; the hymn begs Zeus to scatter it from human souls and put in its place the insight by which Zeus himself governs all things justly.
Man (n.) is the one mortal creature that lives and moves on the earth bearing a likeness of God, since our origin is in him — which is why it is right for us to speak to Zeus at all.