Talk:Aeschylus

I'm confused by the "die on your feet...live on your knees" line being called a misattribution when attributed to Aeschylus.

Here's from the Robert Fagles translation of Agamemnon, line 1384:

"Never, better to die on your feet than live on your knees."

So not only is Wikiquote incorrect in calling this a misattribution, it also lists the source of the misattributed/mistranslated line as Prometheus Bound. Which is wrong. unsigned 07:55, 18 February 2007‎ 71.115.16.212

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The line "The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder." is commonly attributed to Richard Bach. unsigned 23:17, 29 October 2011‎ 101.170.211.101

As quoted in Voices from Earth (2004) by James Randall Miller books.google is indeed no sufficient source. The "quote" should be deleted. --Vsop.de (talk) 09:08, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Truth: first casualty of war

Snowden 1916 is the oldest I could find, followed by William Trufant Foster, President of Reed College, at the national convention of teachers 1917: for "truth is the first casualty of war." The nature of the assault upon truth is shown in the proposal that this national convention of teachers pass a resolution in favor of abolishing the study of the German language and literature http://www.archive.org/details/addressesproceed55natiuoft. books.google has something similar, allegedly by Edward Maguire from 1884, but it is obviously later than 1918: every honest person knows that truth is the first casualty in every war. Pay a visit to a public library and look through the newspaper files from 1914-18. --Vsop.de (talk) 09:08, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

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• Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
  • Variant: The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

• God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

• God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
  • Variant: To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand.
  • Variant: When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
  • Variant: When a man's willing and eager the gods join in.

• Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

• He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

• I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again.

• It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

• It is always in season for old men to learn.

• It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
  • Variant: It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

• It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

• The wisest of the wise may err.

• There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

• There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

• To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

• To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

• When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

• Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Sources listed as references  ?

Would it be clearer to add references at bottom rather then have the source description and link repeated for each quote ??