"The man whose authority is recent is always…" — Aeschylus
"The man whose authority is recent is always stern."
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213 Quotes by Aeschylus
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- Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
- He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the…
- It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
- There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
- For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he…
- From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
- I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
- Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
- The words of truth are simple.
- Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.