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"Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Æschylus, because we read his plays!"
Robert Browning / Cleon.
Cleon.
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"I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil."
Æschylus / Suppliants, 453.
Suppliants, 453.
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""Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."
Æschylus / Suppliants, 707.
Suppliants, 707.
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"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased."
Æschylus / Prometheus, 378.
Prometheus, 378.
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"Time as he grows old teaches many lessons."
Æschylus / Prometheus, 981.
Prometheus, 981.
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"God's mouth knows not to utter falsehood, but he will perform each word."
Æschylus / Prometheus, 1032.
Prometheus, 1032.
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"Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old."
Æschylus / Agamemnon, 584.
Agamemnon, 584.
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"Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. . . . I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade."
Æschylus / Agamemnon, 832.
Agamemnon, 832.
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"Exiles feed on hope."
Æschylus / Agamemnon, 1668.
Agamemnon, 1668.
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"Success is man's god."
Æschylus / Choephoræ, 59.
Choephoræ, 59.
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"So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.""
Æschylus / Frag. 135 (trans. by Plumptre).
Frag. 135 (trans. by Plumptre).
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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."
Æschylus / Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
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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."
Æschylus / Frag. 250 (trans. by Plumptre).
Frag. 250 (trans. by Plumptre).
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"A prosperous fool is a grievous burden."
Æschylus / Frag. 383.
Frag. 383.
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"Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart."
Æschylus / Frag. 384.
Frag. 384.
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"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."
Æschylus / Frag. 385.
Frag. 385.
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