Aeschylus Quotes

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• For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
• His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
• I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
• I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
• If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
• It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
• It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
• Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
• Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
• The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
• The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
• There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
• Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
• We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
• What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
• When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
• Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
• Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
• My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a…
• Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge…

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