There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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 despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
Aeschylus
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
Aeschylus
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Aeschylus
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
Everyone’s quick to blame the alien.
Aeschylus
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
Aeschylus
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus
For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
Aeschylus
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
Aeschylus
God always strives together with those who strive.
Aeschylus
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Aeschylus
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
Aeschylus
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
Aeschylus
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
Aeschylus
But time growing old teaches all things.
Aeschylus
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
Aeschylus
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus
In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Aeschylus
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter – Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes – A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
Aeschylus
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
Aeschylus
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
Aeschylus
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Aeschylus
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
Aeschylus
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Aeschylus
What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?
Aeschylus
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
Aeschylus
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Aeschylus
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another’s might.
Aeschylus
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
Aeschylus
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Aeschylus
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Aeschylus
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
Aeschylus
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Aeschylus
To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.
Aeschylus
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Aeschylus
Too few rejoice at a friend’s good fortune.
Aeschylus
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
Aeschylus
It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Aeschylus
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
Aeschylus
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Aeschylus
The wisest of the wise may err.
Aeschylus
For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
Aeschylus
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Aeschylus
Time brings all things to pass.
Aeschylus
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
Aeschylus
Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus