Aeschylus Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Birth Quotes

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

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

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But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

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Success is man's god.

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Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

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The laws of a state change with the changing times.

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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

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No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.

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You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

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But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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The reward of pain is experience.

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If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

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For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

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For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

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I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink.

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