Quotes
Quotes - Aeschylus
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
God's mouth knows not to utter falsehood, but he will perform each word.
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.... I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade.
Exiles feed on hope.
Success is man's god.
So in the Libyan fable it is told
That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,
Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,
"With our own feathers, not by others' hands,
Are we now smitten."
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.
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.
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.]
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Call no man happy till he is dead.
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hand Are we now smitten."
Suffering brings experience.
To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being.
