Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

Euripides in Alcestis (438 B.C.)
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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

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You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

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A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

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A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.

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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.

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