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Dramatist Inspirational Quotes (1690)

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Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
Aeschylus
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The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.
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The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
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There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.
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The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.
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God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.
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Take courage pain's extremity soon ends.
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Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.
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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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The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.
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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot for punishment will come upon you.
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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
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Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.
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A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.
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For a single path leads to the house of Hades.
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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
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Number, the most excellent of all inventions.
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Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.
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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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He hears but half who hears one party only.
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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.
Aeschylus
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