Aeschylus

Aeschylus (525 BC456 BC; Greek: ) was a playwright of ancient Greece. Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

23 Quotes

The reward of suffering is experience.

— Aeschylus

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

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

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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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.

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Call no man happy till he is dead.

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

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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

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It is always in season for old men to learn.

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

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

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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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Death is softer by far than tyranny.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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