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from fruits of our wrongdoing.1 For if we are just, we shall, it is
true, be unscathed by the gods, but we shall be putting away from us the
profits of injustice; but if we are unjust, we shall win those profits, and,
by the importunity of our prayers, when we transgress and sin, we shall
persuade them and escape scot-free. Yes, it will be objected, but we shall
be brought to judgement in the world below for our unjust deeds here, we or
our children's children. 'Nay, my dear sir,' our calculating friend2 will say, 'here again the
rites for the dead3 have much
efficacy, and the absolving divinities,
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