For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
AESCHYLUSTake courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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Honor modesty more than your life.
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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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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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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There is no avoidance in delay.
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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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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In war, the first casualty is truth.
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