30 Best Quotes by Aeschylus - A Playwright Of Ancient Greece
Aeschylus (Greek: 525 BC – 456 BC) was a playwright of ancient Greece, the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
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Quotes of Aeschylus
1. When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in.
– Aeschylus
2. “Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.”
― Aeschylus
3. “A great ox stands on my tongue.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia
4. It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
– Aeschylus
5. Suffering brings experience.
– Aeschylus
6. Wisdom comes through suffering.
– Aeschylus
7. It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
– Aeschylus
8. Time brings all things to pass.
– Aeschylus
9. In war, truth is the first casualty.
– Aeschylus
10. Few men have the Natural strength to honour a friend’s success without envy.
– Aeschylus
11. It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
– Aeschylus
12. Time as he grows old teaches all things.
– Aeschylus
13. The man who does ill must suffer ill.
– Aeschylus
14. Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
– Aeschylus
15. Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
— Aeschylus
16. From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
– Aeschylus
17. What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
– Aeschylus
18. God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
– Aeschylus
19. Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
– Aeschylus
20. The words of truth are simple.
– Aeschylus
21. Only through suffering do we learn.
– Aeschylus
22. To learn is to be young, however old.
– Aeschylus
23. “They came back
To widows,
To fatherless children,
To screams, to sobbing.
The men came back
As little clay jars
Full of sharp cinders.”
― Aeschylus
24. For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.
– Aeschylus
25. Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
– Aeschylus
26. Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.
— Aeschylus
27. “ESORAIS M’ HOS EKDIKA PASKHO!”
― Aeschylus
28. “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.”
― Aeschylus
29. Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
— Aeschylus
30. “Time brings all things to pass.”
― Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers
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