Poems List

Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.
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It can be no dishonor / to learn from others when they speak good sense.
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One’s own escape from troubles makes one glad; / but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
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It is a painful thing / To look at your own trouble and know / That you yourself and no one else has made it.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Antigone (c. 441 BC )

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“Men are of little worth. Their brief lives last a single day. They cannot hold elusive pleasure fast; Ii melts away. All laurels wither; all illusions fade; Hopes have been phantoms, shade on air-built shade since time began.”
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O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!

Oedpius Rex

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Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

Electra

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The end excuses any evil.

Electra (c.409 BC)

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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
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