Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
AESCHYLUSA curse burns bright on crime
More Aeschylus Quotes
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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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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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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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My will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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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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When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
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In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.
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Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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