Aeschylus
Greek dramatist
Lived from: 525 - 456
Quotes 41 till 60 of 82.
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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
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It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
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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.
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
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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.
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Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
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Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
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Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
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The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
― Aeschylus
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