Aeschylus - Agamemnon

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I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, doglike, I have kept, marking the conclave of all the night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

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Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

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She [Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.

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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

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