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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Aeschylus
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
Aeschylus
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
Aeschylus
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.
Aeschylus
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
Aeschylus
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Aeschylus
The man who does ill must suffer ill.
Aeschylus
I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again.
Aeschylus
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
Aeschylus
Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.
Aeschylus
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, 'With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.'
Aeschylus
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
Aeschylus
Do not kick against the pricks.
Aeschylus
Wisdom cometh by suffering.
Aeschylus
Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
Aeschylus
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
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
Aeschylus
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
For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.
Aeschylus
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