Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
AESCHYLUSHorror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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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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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
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Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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Suffering brings experience.
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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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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
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The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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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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