Classic Quotes from Aeschylus
"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."
"My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you."
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."
"Nothing forces us to know.
What we do not want to know, except pain.”
"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 despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
"The wisest of the wise may err."
"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow."
"For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers
the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness."
"Time brings all things to pass."
"Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety."
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."
"Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind."
"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."
"Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts."
"It is best for the wise man not to seem wise."
"Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might."
“In war, the first casualty is truth.”
“Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.”
"Excessive fear is always powerless."
"The words of truth are simple."
"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased."
"Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm."
"Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.”
“Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."