Aeschylus quotes

Delay not to seize the hour!

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Be what you would seem to be.

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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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The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

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When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.

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I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

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The wisest of the wise may err.

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The future you shall know when it has come. Before then forget it.

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'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

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In war, truth is the first casualty.

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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

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Call no man happy till he is dead.

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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

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The future you shall know when it has come. Before then, forget it.

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What is pleasanter that the tie of host and guest?

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Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

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For only Zeus is free.

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Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place.

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Fear is stronger than arms.

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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

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O 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.

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Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

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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.

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Death is better, a milder mover. For what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

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Bronze is the mirror of the form. Wine, of the heart.

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Ask the gods nothing excessive.

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By suffering comes wisdom.

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Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

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The worst enemy is one that fears the gods.

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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

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