Aeschylus Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Grief Quotes

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

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Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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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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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

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O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

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Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

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Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

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And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

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

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For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

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If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

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The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

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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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The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

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

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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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

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Truth is always the first casualty of war.

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