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.
AESCHYLUSThere are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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Know not to revere human things too much.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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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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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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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.
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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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