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• A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) -- Frag. 383
• It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
  -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) -- Frag. 385...
• O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me
  of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse....
• Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.
  ... I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade....
• So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
  -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) -- Frag. 135 (trans. by Plumptre)...
• Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avail
  o altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise....
• A lie never lives to be old. -- Sophocles (496-406 BC) -- Acrisius, Frag. 59
• Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted. -- Sophocles (496-406 BC) -- Phaedra, Frag. 842
• No oath too binding for a lover. -- Sophocles (496-406 BC) -- Phaedra, Frag. 848