Quotations From AESCHYLUS

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• 91.

  Never in misfortune nor in prosperity may I share my dwelling with the tribe of women.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. The Seven Against Thebes, l. 187.
  
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• 92.

  I know that men in exile feed on hopes.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Agamemnon, l. 1668.
• 93.

  As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. The Persians, l. 349.
• 94.

  Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Agamemnon, l. 553.
  
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• 95.

  The rest I keep silent; a great ox stands on my tongue.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Agamemnon, l. 36.
• 96.

  Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Agamemnon, l. 953.
• 97.

  I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Agamemnon.
• 98.

  Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. The Seven Against Thebes, l. 224.
  
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• 99.

  But ancient insolence is wont to bear an insolence that has its youth among human miseries, sooner or later, when the fixed time of birth is come.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Agamemnon, l. 764.
  
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• 100.

  If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Agamemnon, l. 322.