Famous quotes by »

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

Rate it:

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

Sweet is a grief well ended.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. motivational quotes

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

When Character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. inspirational quotes

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

Exiles feed on hope.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

In war, truth is the first casualty.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

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

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

Of all the Gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of Heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

The memory of pain falls drop by drop upon our heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

The wisest of the wise may err.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

There is adantage in the wisdom won from pain

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

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

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

– Aeschylus

Rate it:

Share your thoughts on Aeschylus's quotes with the community:

0 Comments

Notify me of new comments via email.

Quote of the Day Today's Quote | Archive

Would you like us to send you a FREE inspiring quote delivered to your inbox daily?

Citation

Use the citation below to add this author page to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"Aeschylus Quotes." Quotes.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 21 Dec. 2024. <https://www.quotes.net/authors/Aeschylus+Quotes>.

Missing a quote of Aeschylus?

Know another good quote of Aeschylus? Don't keep it to yourself!

The Web's Largest Resource for

Famous Quotes & Sayings

A Member Of The STANDS4 Network

Our favorite collection of

Famous Authors

William Shakespeare
1564 - 1616
Albert Einstein
1879 - 1955
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929 - 1968
Golda Meir
1898 - 1978
Hippocrates
460 BC - 370 BC
Marilyn Monroe
1926 - 1962
Sigmund Freud
1856 - 1939

Browse Quotes.net

#A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Random New Quotes

Quiz

Are you a quotes master?

"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."

A Roald Dahl

B Johnny Depp

C Tom Cruise

D J. K. Rowling