Aeschylus Famous Quotes



'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

"Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old."

Sweet is a grief well ended.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

The wisest of the wise may err.

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

Exiles feed on hope.

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

"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder."

"For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying."

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

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

"When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in."

"Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart."

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.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

"Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny."

"In war, truth is the first casualty."

"For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends."

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

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

Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.

"His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best."


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