There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
AESCHYLUSThey sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
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Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
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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.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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Honor modesty more than your life.
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Suffering brings experience.
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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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It is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
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Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
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Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
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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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