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.
AESCHYLUSDo not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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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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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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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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By time and age full many things are taught.
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
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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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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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