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.
¶ Agamemnon, 832
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Aeschylus (525-456 BC) Greek dramatist
Death is a softer thing by far than tyranny.
¶ Agamemnon, I, 1364
Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
¶ The Suppliant Maidens
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
¶ Fragment 385
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