Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
AESCHYLUSKnow yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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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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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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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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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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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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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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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
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The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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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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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
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Suffering brings experience.
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Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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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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