Aeschylus Short Quotes

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

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I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

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

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What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?

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She [Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.

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

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Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.

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Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.

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The lust for power never dies—men cannot have enough.

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I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.

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I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again.

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For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

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Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

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This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.

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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

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Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

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

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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

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For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

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No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

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Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

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Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

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Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.

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Ye waves
That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe
Your crisped smiles.

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