Honor modesty more than your life.
AESCHYLUSWe spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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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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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
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Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
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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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Know not to revere human things too much.
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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