Famous Quotes / Aeschylus
41 Quotations by Aeschylus
- 21. It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
- 22. It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
- 23. It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
- 24. Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
- 25. O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
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- 26. Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
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- 27. Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
- 28. The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
- 29. The reward of suffering is experience.
- 30. There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
- 31. There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief
- 32. There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
- 33. Time as he grows old teaches all things.
- 34. Time brings all things to pass.
- 35. To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand.
- 36. What is pleasanter other than the tie of host and guest.
- 37. When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
- 38. When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
- 39. Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
- 40. Wisdom comes alone through suffering.