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- 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
- Words have a longer life than deeds.
- Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC), Nemean Odes
- The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
- Anaxagoras (500 BC - 428 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
- Pericles (490 BC - 429 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
- Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
- Pericles (490 BC - 429 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
- Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Ajax
- Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Ajax
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