Aeschylus

The reward of suffering is experience.

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

— Aeschylus

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

Call no man happy till he is dead.

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

— Aeschylus

It is always in season for old men to learn.

— Aeschylus

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

— Aeschylus

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

— Aeschylus

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

— Aeschylus

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

— Aeschylus

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

— Aeschylus

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

— Aeschylus

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

— Aeschylus

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.

— Aeschylus

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.

— Aeschylus

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.

— Aeschylus