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- Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Creusa
- A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I have been versed in the reasonings of men;
but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.
- I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.
- The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Aegeus
- Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alexander
- In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
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