For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
AESCHYLUSAgainst necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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We should know what is true before we break our rage.
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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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Time brings all things to pass.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
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When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.
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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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Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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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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