Aeschylus

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
– Aeschylus

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend’s succes without envy.
– Aeschylus

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

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
– Aeschylus

In war, truth is the first casualty.
– Aeschylus

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
– Aeschylus

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

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
– Aeschylus

Success is man’s God.
– Aeschylus

To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.
– Aeschylus

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
– Aeschylus

Men in exile feed on dreams.
– Aeschylus

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
– Aeschylus

Call no man happy till he is dead.
– Aeschylus

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

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
– Aeschylus

The wisest of the wise may err.
– Aeschylus

What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?
– Aeschylus

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

Suffering brings experience.
– Aeschylus

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another’s might.
– Aeschylus

Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
– Aeschylus

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
– Aeschylus

It is always in season for old men to learn.
– Aeschylus

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

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

I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.
– Aeschylus

I pray the gods will give me some relief,
And end this weary job. One long full year,
I’ve been lying here, on this rooftop,
The palace of the sons of Atreus,
Resting on my arms, just like a dog.
I’ve come to know the night sky, every star,
The powers we see glittering in the sky,
Bringing winter and summer to us all,
As the constellations rise and sink.
– 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

When a man’s willing and eager, the gods join in.
– Aeschylus

The future you shall know when it has come; before then forget it.
– Aeschylus

Sweet is a grief well ended.
– Aeschylus