The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

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• Aeschylus:

  We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

• Aeschylus:

  For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

• Aeschylus:

  It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffe

• Aeschylus:

  For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

• Aeschylus:

  You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

• Aeschylus:

  Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among m

• Aeschylus:

  What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

• Aeschylus:

  The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

• Aeschylus:

  We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

• Aeschylus:

  I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.