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Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.
The Persians (-472)
But when a man
speeds toward his own ruin,
a god gives him help.
The Persians (-472)
Wealth itself is blameless, but there can be fear for its precious eye; for I consider the presence of a house's master to be its saving light.
The Persians (-472)
Bitter, being first to tell you bitter news.
The Persians (-472)
The walls of Athens are impregnable,
Their firmest bulwarks her heroic sons.
The Persians (-472)
My friends, anyone with real experience of trouble knows how, when a surge of it comes upon them, they are apt to fear everything; but when fortune's tide is good, they trust that the same breeze will blow favourably for ever.
The Persians (-472)
And corpses, piled up like sand, shall witness,
Mute, even to the century to come,
Before the eyes of men, that never, being
Mortal, ought we cast our thoughts too high.
The Persians (-472)