Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.
AESCHYLUSThe high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
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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 in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn.
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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
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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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Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
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