Aeschylus Quotes, Dream Quotes, Children Quotes

Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

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We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

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On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

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If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.

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On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

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For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.

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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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For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

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The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

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In war the first casualty is the truth.

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

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When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

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Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

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Call no man happy till he is dead.

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In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

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His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

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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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As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.

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