Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
AESCHYLUSThe high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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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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Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
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We should know what is true before we break our rage.
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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Simple is the speech of truth.
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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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Fear is stronger than arms.
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Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
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