Aeschylus Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Men Quotes

The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.

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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

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

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The reward of suffering is experience

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Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

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For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

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The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.

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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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It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too quick to shift From ground to ground; and swift indeed The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.

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Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

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Art is far feebler than necessity.

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For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

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Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

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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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Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

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

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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

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