Aeschylus - Eumenides

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

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

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

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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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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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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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The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

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

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This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.

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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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For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

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When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

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

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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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For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

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There are times when fear is good.
It must keep its watchful place
at the heart's controls.

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And from your city do not wholly banish fear,
For what man living, freed from fear, will still be just?

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Let war stay abroad; it makes no difficulty in coming, for the man who will have in him a strong desire for glory. I disapprove of a bird's battling in its own home.

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But when the dust has drunk the blood of men,
No resurrection comes for one who's dead.

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

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Do not taint pure laws with mere expediency
Guard well and reverence that form of government
Which will eschew alike licence and slavery.
And from your policy do not wholly banish fear
For what man living, freed from fear, will still be just?

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

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

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