For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
AESCHYLUSDo not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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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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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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By time and age full many things are taught.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
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When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.
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Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
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In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.
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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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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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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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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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