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- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
- 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 (525 BC - 456 BC)
- 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. - Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
- Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. - Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
- I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
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