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Dramatist Inspirational Quotes (1690)

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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
Aeschylus
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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
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God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
Aeschylus
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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
Aeschylus
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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Aeschylus
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Time brings all things to pass.
Aeschylus
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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
Aeschylus
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Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus
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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
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Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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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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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
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My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
Christopher Marlowe
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Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
Jean Racine
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Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.
Aphra Behn
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
Eugene Ionesco
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Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
George Chapman
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