Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.
Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be.
And so my thoughts have lead me to believe that childless men and women lead lives more fortunate than those with sons and daughters.
Receive the god into your kingdom pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance!
No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him.
I am nothing but words, just a shape of dreams or night
What else is Wisdom? What of man's endeavour Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great? To stand from fear set free, to breathe and wait; To hold a hand uplifted over Hate; And shall not Loveliness be loved for ever?
A woman like me! What am I like that's different from you or any man
MEGARA: You love the light so much? AMPHITRYION: I do, I love its hopes.
We'll see how the sky catches fire. We'll see how she feeds the flames with her implacable hate.
O Dionysus, Son of God, do you see our sufferings? Do you see your faithful in helpless agony before the oppressor? O Lord, come down from Olympus, shake your golden thyrsus and stifle the murderer's insolent fury.
All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.
AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate!
CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?
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