Aeschylus Quotes - Famous Quotes by Aeschylus
Born: 0525-00-00
Died: 0456-00-00
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'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
- Aeschylus
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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
- Aeschylus
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Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.
- Aeschylus
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Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
- Aeschylus
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Exiles feed on hope.
- Aeschylus
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Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.
- Aeschylus
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For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
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For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
- Aeschylus
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
- Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
- Aeschylus
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I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
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In war, truth is the first casualty.
- Aeschylus
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
- Aeschylus
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
- Aeschylus
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
- Aeschylus
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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 touch
Upon a corpse.
- Aeschylus
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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 of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
- Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
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Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
- Aeschylus
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Sweet is a grief well ended.
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The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.
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The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.
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The wisest of the wise may err.
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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 pain.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
- Aeschylus
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Time as he grows old teaches all things.
- Aeschylus
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When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.
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Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.
- Aeschylus
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Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
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