Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
AESCHYLUSIt is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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A curse burns bright on crime
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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The reward of suffering is experience.
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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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My will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you.
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They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn.
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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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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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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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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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