Aeschylus Quotes, Summer Quotes, Dog Quotes

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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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

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What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

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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 truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

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May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

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The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

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The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

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Art is far feebler than necessity.

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Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

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

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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

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When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

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Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

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Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

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But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

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Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

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