Aeschylus
Æschylus was a playwright of ancient Greece, the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
Found 36 thoughts of Aeschylus
The reward of suffering is experience.
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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.
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Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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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.
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Time as he grows old teaches all things.
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
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When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.
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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
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Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
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Death is softer by far than tyranny.
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I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
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It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
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If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
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