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Through want of heart fear seizes on my tongue.
Seven Against Thebes (-467)
It is for the man to take care of business outside the house; let no woman make decrees in those matters. Keep inside and do no harm!
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Oresteia (-458)
Like a young horse
Who bites against the new bit in his teeth,
And tugs and struggles against the new-tried rein.
For stubborness, if one be in the wrong,
Is in itself weaker than naught at all.
I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.
Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.
Oresteia (-458)
Repute of justice, not just act, thou wishest.
Oresteia (-458)
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.
Oresteia (-458)
They sent forth men to battle,
But no such men return;
And home, to claim their welcome,
Come ashes in an urn.
To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand.
To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.
For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.
Oresteia (-458)
Chorus of Furies: Living, you will be my feast, not slain at an altar.
Oresteia (-458)
But when a man
speeds toward his own ruin,
a god gives him help.
The Persians (-472)
Obedience mother is of good success,
Sure pledge of safety.
Seven Against Thebes (-467)