Nothing forces us to know, What we do not want to know except pain.
AESCHYLUSMy will is mine, I shall not make it soft for you.
More Aeschylus Quotes
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Honor modesty more than your life.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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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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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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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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Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
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Wrong must not win by technicalities.
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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
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When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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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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A curse burns bright on crime
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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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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Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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