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A Prosperous Fool Is A Grievous Burden. -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) -- Frag.
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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
-- Aeschylus (525-456 BC)
-- Frag. 383
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Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart. -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) -- Frag. 384
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
-- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) -- Frag. 385...
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....
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avail
o altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise....
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.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted. -- Sophocles (496-406 BC) -- Phaedra, Frag. 842
No oath too binding for a lover. -- Sophocles (496-406 BC) -- Phaedra, Frag. 848
The truth is always the strongest argument. -- Sophocles (496-406 BC) -- Phaedra, Frag. 737