She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
AESCHYLUSFor it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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Don’t try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped.
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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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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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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
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Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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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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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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