John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Aeschylus. (525–456 B.C.) (continued) |
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| 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.” 1 |
| Frag. 135 (trans. by Plumptre). |
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| Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. |
| Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre). |
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| 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. |
| Frag. 250 (trans. by Plumptre). |
| 8462 |
| A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. |
| Frag. 383. |
| 8463 |
| Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart. |
| Frag. 384. |
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| It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. |
| Frag. 385. |
| Sophocles. (c. 496 B.C.–406 B.C.) |
| 8465 |
| Think not that thy word and thine alone must be right. |
| Antigone, 706. |
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| Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot. |
| Electra, 1007. |
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| There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man’s life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched. 2 |
| Trachiniæ, 1. |
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| In a just cause the weak o’ercome the strong. 3 |
| Œdipus Coloneus, 880. |
| Note 1. See Waller, Quotation 2. [back] |
| Note 2. The saying “Call no man happy before he dies” was ascribed to Solon Herodotus, i. 32. [back] |
| Note 3. See Marlowe, Quotation 2. [back] |