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From Quotes by Aeschylus
- From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
- To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
- And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
- Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
- 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…
- Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all…
- Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant…
- I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog-…
- Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns…
- To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
- To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
- 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...
- I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death
- There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
- There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from…
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