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For few there are among men in whom it is inborn to admire without envy a friend's good… — Aeschylus

Play · Greek tragedy · Tragedy (play)

For few there are among men in whom it is inborn to admire without envy a friend's good fortune.

In the original Greek

φίλον τὸν εὐτυχοῦντ᾽ ἄνευ φθόνου σέβειν.

Aeschylus
Agamemnon · 458 BC
★ 3.8
Provenance
Current citation
Aeschylus. "Agamemnon." The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides, edited and translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 1984.
Original citation
Aeschylus. Agamemnon. 458 BCE, The Dionysia, Athens, Greece.

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