Hecuba

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  • Even in adversity ‘tis wise to yield to reason’s dictates. (View Highlight)
  • For whoso is not used to taste of sorrow’s cup, though he bears it, vet it galls him when he puts his neck within the yoke; far happier would he be dead than alive, for life of honour reft is toil and trouble. (View Highlight)
  • ye who harm your friends and think no more of it, if ye can but say a word to win the mob. (View Highlight)
  • Is it not then strange that poor land, when blessed by heaven with a lucky year, yields a good crop, while that which is good, if robbed of needful care, bears but little increase; yet ‘mongst men the knave is never other than a knave, the good man aught but good, never changing for the worse be- cause of misfortune, but ever the same? (View Highlight)
  • Good train- ing doubtless gives lessons in good conduct, (View Highlight)
  • Numbers are a fearful thing, and joined to craft a desperate foe. (View Highlight)
  • for this is the interest alike of individual and state, that the wrong- doer be punished and the good man prosper. (View Highlight)
  • Custom determines even our natural ties, making the most bitter foes friends, and re- garding as foes those who formerly were friends. (View Highlight)
  • there is not in the world a single man free; for he is either a slave to money or to fortune, or else the people in their thousands or the fear of public prosecution prevents him from following the dictates of his heart. (View Highlight)
  • For where liability to justice coincides with heaven’s law, there is ruin fraught with death and doom. (View Highlight)
  • if a man’s deeds had been good, so should his words have been; if, on the other hand, evil, his words should have be- traved their unsoundness, (View Highlight)