Quote #49

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

More from Aeschylus

  1. When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
  2. Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
  3. To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
  4. To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
  5. There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
  6. There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
  7. The wisest of the wise may err.
  8. The reward of suffering is experience.

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