Iphigenia in Tauris,, alone by the shore
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“Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.”
“No, child, you’re wrong. They’re not the same. Life means hope, death is nothing at all.”
“everybody loves himself more than his neighbor.”
“My love for you was greater than my wisdom.”
“Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.”
“All of our human life is full of pain and there is no rest from toil”
“ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head”
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?”
“On, on! Run, dance, delirious, possessed!”
“But this is ruin! New waves breaking in To wreck us, ere we are righted from the old!”
“Look at it steadily; come closer to the truth. I see-- O, gods, what horror! Oh, what misery!”
“There is strange tyranny in the god who sent Against your house this cruel punishment.”
“Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.”
“You gave birth to your own death.”
“We'll buy back our own harm with what is most dear to us.”
“Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive”
“It is right for women to stand by a woman's cause.”
“O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?”
“Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.”