Aeschylus on determination
Aeschylus106 quotes“Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.”
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
AeschylusAeschylus To learn is to be young, however old.
AeschylusAeschylus The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
AeschylusAeschylus When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
AeschylusAeschylus It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
AeschylusAeschylus Wrong must not win by technicalities.
AeschylusAeschylus For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
AeschylusAeschylus For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
AeschylusAeschylus But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
AeschylusAeschylus Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.
AeschylusAeschylus Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
AeschylusAeschylus Know not to revere human things too much.
AeschylusAeschylus There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
AeschylusAeschylus Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
AeschylusAeschylus If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
AeschylusAeschylus Suffering brings experience.
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