It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
AESCHYLUSThe anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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Honor modesty more than your life.
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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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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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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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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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