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Quotes by Aeschylus

  • '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.