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.
AESCHYLUSIt is always in season for old men to learn.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Honor modesty more than your life.
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Give me an answer which is plain to understand.
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
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Time brings all things to pass.
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By time and age full many things are taught.
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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
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A curse burns bright on crime
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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