Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
AESCHYLUSGod loves to help him who strives to help himself.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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By time and age full many things are taught.
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We should know what is true before we break our rage.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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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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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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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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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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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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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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Honor modesty more than your life.
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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.
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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
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