Aeschylus - Agamemnon

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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

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Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

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I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

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I pray the gods will give me some relief
And end this weary job. One long full year
I've been lying here, on this rooftop,
The palace of the sons of Atreus,
Resting on my arms, just like a dog.
I've come to know the night sky, every star,
The powers we see glittering in the sky,
Bringing winter and summer to us all,
As the constellations rise and sink.

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Few men have the strength of character to rejoice in a friend's success without a touch of envy.

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And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

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A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.

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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

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Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

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Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

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When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

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Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

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I know the nightly concourse of the stars And which of the sky's bright regents brings us storm, Which summer; when they set, and their uprisings.

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Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

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Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

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Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

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The rest, I keep silent: a great ox is treading on my tongue—but the house itself, if it got a voice, would speak very plainly.

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Zeus, who guided mortals to be wise,
has established his fixed law—
wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
so men against their will
learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods
seated on their solemn thrones—
such grace is harsh and violent.

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The lust for power never dies—men cannot have enough.

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The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

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Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.

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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

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The sea is there—and who shall quench it?—nurturing the juices which yield much purple worth its weight in silver, wholly renewable, the dye of vestments; there is a remedy for these here with the gods' help, my lord, from our reserve: the house does not know how to be poor.

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I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again.

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Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.

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