Aeschylus Quotes

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• If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a…
• Delay not to seize the hour!
• For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
• . . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.
• Sweet is a grief well ended.
• "Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness
• The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven…
• Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.
• Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.
• A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
• They who prosper take on airs of vanity.
• Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
• Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
• It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
• On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.
• I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into…
• Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
• It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
• O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its…
• By Time and Age full many things are taught.

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