Poems List

What is there / more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
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The power that holds the sky’s majesty wins our worship.
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In few men is it part of nature to respect / a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.
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Pain lays not its touch / Upon a corpse.
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To make wail and lament for one’s ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
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Misfortune / wandering the same track lights now upon one / and now upon another.
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Agamemnon (c. 490 BC )

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Even he who is wiser than the wise may err.

Fragments

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Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
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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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