God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
AESCHYLUSHorror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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There is no avoidance in delay.
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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
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We should know what is true before we break our rage.
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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The reward of suffering is experience.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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By time and age full many things are taught.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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Simple is the speech of truth.
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The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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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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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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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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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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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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