But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
AESCHYLUSShe looked just like a painting dying to speak.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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Give me an answer which is plain to understand.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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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.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
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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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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.
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