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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
In war, truth is the first casualty.
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