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Aeschylus
Quotes
Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Aeschylus?
→ It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
→ Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
→ It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
→ Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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→ He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
→ It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
→ Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
→ The secret of getting things done is to act.
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→ Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
→ Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
→ I don't know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.
→ If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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One of these may be attributed to Aeschylus. Which one?
→ To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
→ It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
→ Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
→ There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
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Which one of these belongs to Aeschylus?
→ All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
→ The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
→ If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
→ A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Aeschylus?
→ Time brings all things to pass.
→ It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
→ Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
→ We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Aeschylus.
→ From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
→ It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
→ To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
→ A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Aeschylus. Which one?
→ It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
→ Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
→ Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
→ Learn what you are and be such.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Aeschylus?
→ I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
→ From the end spring new beginnings.
→ We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
→ Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Aeschylus.
→ I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
→ Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
→ Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
→ Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
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Looks like Aeschylus is the author of one of these.
→ Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
→ There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
→ We know what we are, but not what we may be.
→ Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Aeschylus.
→ Idolatry is in a man’s own thought, not in the opinion of another.
→ Tis not seasonable to call a man a traitor that has an army at his heels.
→ Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
→ Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Which one should be attributed to Aeschylus?
→ Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
→ He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
→ Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
→ Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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