God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
AESCHYLUSThe reward of suffering is experience.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
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A curse burns bright on crime
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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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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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
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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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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
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