Aeschylus Quotes

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

Life, Good, Live

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
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New Year's, Feeling, Between

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

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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Good, Wise, Pride

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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Rather, Ignorant, Evils

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
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Blame, Everyone, Quick

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
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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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Trust, Heart, End

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
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Men, Passion, Victory

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
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Fear, Good, Heart

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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Lie, Words, Sickness

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
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Happiness, Free, Shall

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
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Him, Destiny, Free

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
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Worth, Trouble, Listen

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
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God, Hard, Hand

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
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Wise, Knowing, Profitable

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
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God, House, Guilt

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
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Bold, Boast, Beside

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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Life, Death, Live

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
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Free, Except, Zeus

God always strives together with those who strive.
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God, Together, Strive

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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Wise, Foolish, Seem

It is always in season for old men to learn.
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Education, Men, Old

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
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Give, Advice, Easy

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Poet

Born: 525 BC

Died: 456 BC

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