Aeschylus Quotes

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• Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.
• For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.
• A great ox stands on my tongue.
• Call no man happy till he is dead.
• The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun...
• For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
• We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
• Suffering brings experience.
• I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death
• Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
• In war, truth is the first casualty.
• Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
• [Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures…
• Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
• ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out…
• There is no avoidance in delay.
• They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn
• There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
• Only through suffering do we learn
• Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

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