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Suffering brings experience. - Agamemnon (185) [Experience] Fountains of tears. [Lat., Fons lacrymarum.] - Agamemnon (861) [Tears] It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. - Agamemnon (884), (adapted) [Misfortune] Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being. - Agamemnon (928) [Happiness] Call no man happy till he is dead. - Agamemnon (938), earliest reference [Death] Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power. - Agamemnon (938) [Public] To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals. - Choephoroe (60) [Fortune] He bears but half who hears one party only. - Eum (428) [Prejudice] God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. - Frag. Incert. (II) [Deceit] So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hand Are we now smitten." - Fragment, (Plumptre's translation), 123 [Eagles] To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand. - Persoe (742) [Help] Necessity is stronger far than art. - Prometheus Chained (l. 513) [Necessity] Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles. - Prometheus Chained (l. 95) [Ocean] Obedience is the mother of success, the wife of safety. - Septem--Duces (224) [Obedience] To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.] - Siege of Thebes [Appearance] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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