For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
AESCHYLUSFew men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
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Don’t try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped.
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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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Give me an answer which is plain to understand.
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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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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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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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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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