Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
AESCHYLUSHonor modesty more than your life.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
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A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
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She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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Simple is the speech of truth.
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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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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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Time brings all things to pass.
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