Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound

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God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

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It is easy for the one who stands outside
The prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one
Who suffers.

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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

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On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

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For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

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It is an easy thing for one whose foot
Is on the outside of calamity
to give advice.

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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

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Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

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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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But utterly without knowledge Moiled, until I the rising of the stars Showed them, and when they set, Though much obscure. Moreever, number, the most excellent Of all inventions, I for them devised, And gave them writing that retaineth all, The serviceable mother of the Muse.

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