Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
AESCHYLUS
They 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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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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Time brings all things to pass.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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Simple is the speech of truth.
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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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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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