Quotes by Aeschylus

"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."

Aeschylus on advice
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"He who goes unenvied shall not be admired."

Aeschylus on envy   

"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep - pain that cannot forget; Falls drop by drop upon the heart, And in our own despite, against our will, Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."

Aeschylus on god
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"Call no man happy till he is dead."

Aeschylus on happiness
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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus on kindness
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"Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new."

Aeschylus on leadership   

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

Aeschylus on learning
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"When a match has equal partners then I fear not."

Aeschylus on marriage
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"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."

Aeschylus on memory
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"Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?"

Aeschylus on pain
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"The man whose authority is recent is always stern."

Aeschylus on power
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"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."

Aeschylus on promises   

"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."

Aeschylus on self-reliance
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"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."

Aeschylus on suffering
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"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."

Aeschylus on character
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"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

Aeschylus on tyranny   

"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."

Aeschylus on tyranny
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"When a man's willing and eager the god's join in."

Aeschylus on power
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"When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in."

Aeschylus on power
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"The reward of suffering is experience."

Aeschylus on adversity
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"I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time."

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"Drop, dropin our sleep, upon the heartsorrow falls, memorys pain,and to us, though against our very will,even in our own despite,comes wisdomby the awful grace of God. "

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"Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. "

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