But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
AESCHYLUSI would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
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My will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you.
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We should know what is true before we break our rage.
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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
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When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Don’t try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped.
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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 evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.
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Honor modesty more than your life.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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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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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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