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- It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
- Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
- Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
- I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
- Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), The Libation Bearers
- His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), The Seven Against Thebes
- The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
- Anaxagoras (500 BC - 428 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Trachiniae
- Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Trachiniae
- Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Trachiniae
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