I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
AESCHYLUSFew men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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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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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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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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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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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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The reward of suffering is experience.
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In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
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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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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
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When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
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To learn is to be young, however old.
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Know not to revere human things too much.
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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