Aeschylus on force
Aeschylus106 quotes“Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.”
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If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
AeschylusAeschylus Suffering brings experience.
AeschylusAeschylus I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
AeschylusAeschylus Honor modesty more than your life.
AeschylusAeschylus You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
AeschylusAeschylus In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
AeschylusAeschylus Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
AeschylusAeschylus Time brings all things to pass.
AeschylusAeschylus There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
AeschylusAeschylus Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
AeschylusAeschylus For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
AeschylusAeschylus The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
AeschylusAeschylus It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
AeschylusAeschylus Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
AeschylusAeschylus It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
AeschylusAeschylus Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois You can take a kid out of Rosengård, but you can never take Rosengård out of that kid.
Zlatan IbrahimovićZlatan Ibrahimović But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn’t freedom. It’s not control that’s lacking when one feels ‘free’, but the objectionable control of force.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Eric HofferEric Hoffer Whatever you can imagine is waiting for you, fully created in the invisible, and the way to make it visible is to harness the force of love by imagining and feeling what you love.
Rhonda ByrneRhonda Byrne