{"id":1019,"date":"2013-09-07T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T11:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2013-09-07T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T11:11:07","slug":"aeschylus-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"Aeschylus quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Quotation<\/a>Aeschylus (525 – 456BC), Greek poet and dramatist
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\nDeath is better, a milder fate, than tyranny.<\/p>\n

<\/i>It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.<\/p>\n

<\/i>It is in the character of very few men to honour without envy a friend who has prospered.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Only when man’s life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.<\/p>\n

<\/i>For somehow this is tyranny’s disease – to trust no friends.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.<\/p>\n

<\/i>His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.<\/p>\n

<\/i>In war, truth is the first casualty.<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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