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Aeschylus Quotes
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Famous Aeschylus Quotations
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Greek tragedian; the father of Greek tragic drama (525-456 BC)
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- 'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness. Aeschylus »
- A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. Aeschylus »
- Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart. Aeschylus »
- Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. Aeschylus »
- Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. Aeschylus »
- Exiles feed on hope. Aeschylus »
- Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. Aeschylus »
- For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying. Aeschylus »
- For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends. Aeschylus »
- His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best. Aeschylus »
- I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. Aeschylus »
- I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil. Aeschylus »
- In war, truth is the first casualty. Aeschylus »
- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. Aeschylus »
- It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Aeschylus »
- It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. Aeschylus »
- Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old. Aeschylus »
- Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy. Aeschylus »
- Sweet is a grief well ended. Aeschylus »
- The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it. Aeschylus »
- The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder. Aeschylus »
- The wisest of the wise may err. Aeschylus »
- 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. Aeschylus »
- There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. Aeschylus »
- Time as he grows old teaches all things. Aeschylus »
- Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. Aeschylus »
- When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in. Aeschylus »
- Words are the physicians of the mind diseased. Aeschylus »
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