Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
AESCHYLUSBetter to die on your feet than live on your knees.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
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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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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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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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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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It is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
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Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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