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
gifts power death
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.
pain death art
Variant translation: In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
trust theend
But time growing old teaches all things.
thetimes time
By Time and Age full many things are taught.
age thetimes time
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
pain thetimes time
Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
death
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
fame man death
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
gifts death
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
fate death
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
fate force man experience
Call no man happy till he is dead.
man
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
wealth man
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
misfortune man
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