Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
AESCHYLUSWe spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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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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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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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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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.
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