But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
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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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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We should know what is true before we break our rage.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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To learn is to be young, however old.
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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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In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.
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Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
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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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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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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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