By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
AESCHYLUSDo not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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Don’t try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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Know not to revere human things too much.
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In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.
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Suffering brings experience.
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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know except pain.
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My heart’s a dance of fear.
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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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Time brings all things to pass.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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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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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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