Bastions of wealth
are no deference for the man
who treads the grand altar of Justice
down and out of sight.


Aeschylus

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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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Know not to revere human things too much.
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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden
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The laws of a state change with the changing times
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I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils
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Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy
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Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood
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Ask the gods nothing excessive.
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I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
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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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We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
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For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
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It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
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Old men are always young enough to learn, with profit.
AESCHYLUS
Conozco las estrellas por memorias, los ejércitos de la noche, y hay en la delantera los que nos tr...
AESCHYLUS
Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life i...
AESCHYLUS
We should know what is true before we break our rage.
AESCHYLUS
Every medicine is vain.
AESCHYLUS
In visions of the night, like dropping rain,
Descend the many memories of pain
AESCHYLUS
She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
AESCHYLUS
My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.
AESCHYLUS
Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
AESCHYLUS
Time in its aging course teaches all things.
AESCHYLUS
Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
AESCHYLUS
There is no sickness worse for me that words that to be kind must lie.
AESCHYLUS