Know not to revere human things too much.
AESCHYLUSThere is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
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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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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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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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Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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Don’t try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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There is no avoidance in delay.
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Honor modesty more than your life.
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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
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Simple is the speech of truth.
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Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
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To learn is to be young, however old.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
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