“The successful are not tolerated.”
Source: The Ancient Greek Drama Collection: The Plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
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Famous Aeschylus Quotes
“He who is not enviable is not admirable.”
Source: Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus: Ad Fidem Manuscriptorum (1812)
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
“He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.”
Source: Aeschylus II: The Oresteia
“Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.”
“There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.”
“In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.”
Source: Aeschylus II: The Oresteia