Aeschylus Quotes, Summer Quotes, Dog Quotes

I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

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The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

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Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

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Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

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Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

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The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

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Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.

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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

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May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

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The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.

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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

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The wisest of the wise may err.

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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.

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Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.

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Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

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But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

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A great ox stands on my tongue.

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Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

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Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

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