It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
AESCHYLUSI would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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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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Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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A curse burns bright on crime
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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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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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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