Sophocles - Electra

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Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

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I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

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From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

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It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.

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One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

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Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.

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