Aeschylus Quotes

‘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

‘Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.’ – Aeschylus

‘It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.’ – Aeschylus

‘There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.’ – Aeschylus

‘Wisdom comes alone through suffering.’ – Aeschylus

‘From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.’ – 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

‘Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.’ – Aeschylus

‘It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.’ – Aeschylus

‘There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.’ – Aeschylus

‘Wisdom comes alone through suffering.’ – Aeschylus

‘From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.’ – Aeschylus

‘Memory is the mother of all wisdom.’ – Aeschylus

‘God always strives together with those who strive.’ – Aeschylus

‘For know that no one is free, except Zeus.’ – Aeschylus

‘Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.’ – Aeschylus

‘Everyone’s quick to blame the alien.’ – Aeschylus

‘I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.’ – Aeschylus

‘You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.’ – Aeschylus

‘God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.’ – Aeschylus

‘There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.’ – Aeschylus

‘Time brings all things to pass.’ – Aeschylus

‘It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.’ – Aeschylus

‘Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.’ – Aeschylus

‘Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.’ – Aeschylus

‘It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.’ – Aeschylus