We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
AESCHYLUSSuffering brings experience.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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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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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
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There is no avoidance in delay.
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But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
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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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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
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Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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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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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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Know not to revere human things too much.
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To learn is to be young, however old.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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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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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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