We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
AESCHYLUSSearch well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Honor modesty more than your life.
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Suffering brings experience.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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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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Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
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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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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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