Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Aeschylus Quotations
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The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
The wisest of the wise may err.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured
Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed
By hymns of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured
Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed
By hymns of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Sweet is a grief well ended.
Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse.
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse.
Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
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.
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Exiles feed on hope.
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.