Euripides - Alcestis

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Disaster appears, to crush
one man now, but afterward another.

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God, these old men!
How they pray for death! How heavy they find this life in the slow drag of days!
And yet, when Death comes near them,
You will not find one who will rise and walk with him, not one whose years are still a burden to him.

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

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I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the chanting of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

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Today's today. Tomorrow we may be
ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

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Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

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Never shall I say that marriage brings more joy than pain.

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My mother was accursed the night she bore me, and I am faint with envy of all the dead.

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Be happy, drink, think each day your own as you live it and leave the rest to fortune.

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Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

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You love the daylight: do you think your
father does not?

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Oh, if I had Orpheus' voice and poetry
with which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord,
I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below.
I'd go down there for you. Charon or the grim
King's dog could not prevent me then
from carrying you up into the fields of light.

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When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

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You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

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A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

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The divine will manifests itself in many forms,
and the gods bring many things to pass against our expectations.
What we thought would happen remains unfulfilled,
while the god has found a way to accomplish the unexpected.
And that is what has happened here.

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A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dead we have lost.

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