But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
AESCHYLUSGod loves to help him who strives to help himself.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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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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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
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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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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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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 easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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