There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
AESCHYLUSIt’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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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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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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We should know what is true before we break our rage.
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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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It is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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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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In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
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