Aeschylus Quotes, Death Quotes, Home Quotes

A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

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Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.

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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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Suffering brings experience.

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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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ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.

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Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

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

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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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Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

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Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

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Fear is stronger than arms.

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The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.

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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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Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

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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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Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

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Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

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