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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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The reward of suffering is experience.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
Topic: Age
Source: Agamemnon
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To be rather than to seem.
[Lat., Esse quam videri.]
Topic: Appearance
Source: Siege of Thebes
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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Topic: Appearance
Source: Siege of Thebes
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
Topic: Death
Source: Agamemnon (938), earliest reference
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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
Topic: Deceit
Source: Frag. Incert. (II)
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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."
Topic: Eagles
Source: Fragment, (Plumptre's translation), 123
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Suffering brings experience.
Topic: Experience
Source: Agamemnon (185)
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To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
Topic: Fortune
Source: Choephoroe (60)
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Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy
well-being.
Topic: Happiness
Source: Agamemnon (928)
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Topic: Happiness
Source: Agamemnon (928)
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To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a
helping hand.
Topic: Help
Source: Persoe (742)
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Topic: Help
Source: None
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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
Topic: Hospitality
Source: None
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
Topic: Learning
Source: Agamemnon
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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
Topic: Misfortune
Source: Agamemnon (884), (adapted)
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Topic: Nature
Source: None
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Necessity is stronger far than art.
Topic: Necessity
Source: Prometheus Chained (l. 513)
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Ye waves
That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe
Your crisped smiles.
Topic: Ocean
Source: Prometheus Chained (l. 95)
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Topic: Outcasts
Source: None
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It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Topic: Please title this page. (envy.html)
Source: None
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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.
Topic: Public
Source: Agamemnon (938)
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And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Topic: Society
Source: None
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Fountains of tears.
[Lat., Fons lacrymarum.]
Topic: Tears
Source: Agamemnon (861)
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