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“The fact is that there are people, good people who,
not because they want to
but all the same,
fall in love with the wrong thing.”
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
not because they want to
but all the same,
fall in love with the wrong thing.”
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
“No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him.”
― Iphigenia in Aulis
― Iphigenia in Aulis
“Prometheus: Yes, I stopped mortals from foreseeing their doom.
Chorus: What cure did you discover for that sickness?
Prometheus: I sowed in them blind hopes.”
― Greek Tragedies, Volume 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus
Chorus: What cure did you discover for that sickness?
Prometheus: I sowed in them blind hopes.”
― Greek Tragedies, Volume 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus
“You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.”
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“I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.”
― Hippolytus
― Hippolytus
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