Aeschylus Quotes, Death Quotes, Home Quotes

A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

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There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

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So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

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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.

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A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.

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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

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Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

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But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

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Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

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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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Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.

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There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

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The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.

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The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

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No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.

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It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

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Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

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