Aeschylus Quotes, Home Quotes, Heart Quotes

Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

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The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

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Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

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O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

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Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

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The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

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High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.

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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

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Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

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In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.

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By Time and Age full many things are taught.

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Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

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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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Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

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Honor modesty more than your life.

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For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

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For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

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For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.

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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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