Aeschylus Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, Hymns Quotes

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

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

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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

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Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

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Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

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Art is far feebler than necessity.

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It is always in season for old men to learn.

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Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

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By suffering comes wisdom.

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Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

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My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.

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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

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You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

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For the mighty, even to give away is grace.

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For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

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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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Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

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Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

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

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