Poems List

Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
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A man can get a reputation from very small things.
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Oedipus Coloneus l. 1225 (translation by R. C. Jebb); see Auden 18:15

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There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.

Antigone l. 333

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A woman’s vows I write upon the wave.

Unknown Drama, fragment 694

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No man loves life like him that’s growing old.

Acrisius, fragment 64

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No falsehood lingers on into old age.

Acrisius, fragment 59

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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

Oedipus at Colonus, l. 1625

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A remedy too strong for the disease.

Tereus, fragment 514 11

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