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Aeschylus quotes, quotations, sayings

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
Aeschylus
 1005    
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
 1005    
Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Call no man happy till he is dead.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.
Aeschylus
 1004    
It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
Aeschylus
 1004    
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
Aeschylus
 1004    
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Aeschylus
 1004    
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus
 1004    
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Aeschylus
 1004    
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
 1004    
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
Aeschylus
 1004    
"Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
Aeschylus
 1004    
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus
 1004    
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
 1004    
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
Aeschylus
 1004    
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
Aeschylus
 1004    
When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
Aeschylus
 1004    
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Aeschylus
 1004    
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus
 1004    
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
Aeschylus
 1004    
When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
Aeschylus
 1004    
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Aeschylus
 1004    
The reward of suffering is experience.
Aeschylus
 1004    
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Aeschylus
 1004    
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Aeschylus
 1004    
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Aeschylus
 1004    
The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.
Aeschylus
 1004    
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
Aeschylus
 1004    
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Exiles feed on hope.
Aeschylus
 1004    
The wisest of the wise may err.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
Aeschylus
 1004    
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Sweet is a grief well ended.
Aeschylus
 1004    
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Aeschylus
 1004    
What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men.
Clive Staples Lewis
 1004    


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