72 result(s) for Aeschylus Quotes.
"Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
"For in the end, there is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
"Wrinkles were not just something that age gave you. It was something people gave themselves."
"But time growing old teaches all things. Time and experience, bringing wisdom."
"For children preserve the fame of a man after his death."
"He who goes unburdened will have his journey done before he wishes."
"It is in the times of greatest tribulation that we learn the most about ourselves."
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"There is no sickness worst than a whole body spent by an evil soul."
"Suffering teaches wisdom."
"It is always in season for old men to learn."
"The wisest of the wise may err."
"The man who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy will be turned away and told: Do not come back here."
"For the good of the many though the tears of the one."
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
"Men of few words are the best men."
"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."
"Once a man indulges in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbery."
"The man who is absent often is wrong."
"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired."
"The tongue is the mother of the voice, but the fortunes of the word are the daughters of the heart."
"God's most lordly gift is the endowment of eloquence."
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"Count no man happy till he dies."
"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."
"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."
"When a man's willing and eager the god's join in."
"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased."
"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."
"Justice shines in very smoky homes and honors the honest and straightforward hearts."
"For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune."
"Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again."
"For I, that's all the life I know — a life of ... dream on dream."
"He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt."
"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath."
"Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it."
"Zeus who guided mortals to be wise!"
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"With our shafts, or the prey"
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
"Wisdom comes through suffering."
"In war, truth is the first casualty."
"Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart."
"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."
"It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer."
"The seed of suffering in the field of destiny is transmuted into golden fruit by the heavenly alchemy of the soul."
"Call no man happy till he is dead."
"So in the Libyan fable it is told that once an eagle, stricken with a dart, said when he saw the fashion of the shaft, 'With our own feathers, not by others' hands, are we now smitten.'"
"He who goes unenvied shall not be admired."
"For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest."
"Not in opulence, but in the absence of all sorrows, is the richest that the gods can give."
"It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."
"The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, the reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach."
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."
"Of prosperity mortals can never have enough."
"Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?"
"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."
"One learns by suffering."
"God's most lordly gift is life exempt from all pains."
"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly."
"Time as he grows old teaches all things."
"Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?"
"Set your desires on some fair possession, but then get busy with what you have."
"The words of truth are simple."
"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."
"In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow."
"I know how men in exile feed on dreams."
"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."
"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering."
"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls."
"When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?"
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
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