But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
AESCHYLUSGod’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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We should know what is true before we break our rage.
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Time brings all things to pass.
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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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Know not to revere human things too much.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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By time and age full many things are taught.
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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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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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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My will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you.
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There is no avoidance in delay.
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