“If I grieve,
I do not therefore wish to multiply
The griefs of others.”

—  Aeschylus , Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 345–346 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

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Ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐκ εἰ δυστυχῶ, τοῦδ' εἵνεκα θέλοιμ' ἂν ὡς πλείστοισι πημονὰς τυχεῖν.

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