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If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.
Ask the gods nothing excessive.
AESCHYLUS, The Suppliant Women
There is no disease I spit on more than treachery.
AESCHYLUS, Prometheus Bound
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
AESCHYLUS, Prometheus Bound
Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.
AESCHYLUS, The Seven Against Thebes
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
AESCHYLUS, Prometheus Bound
When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?
When a match has equal partners, then I fear not.
AESCHYLUS, Prometheus Bound
Death is preferable -- it is a milder fate than tyranny.
Call no man happy till he is dead.
Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
Wisdom comes only through suffering.
Time brings all things to pass.
AESCHYLUS, The Libation Bearers
- 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.
- 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.
- Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast,
- He dieth not, unless the appointed time,
- The limit of his life's span, coincide;
- Nor does the man who by the hearth at home
- Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
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