Memorable Quotes and quotations from AeschylusAeschylus Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC)Aeschylus - Agamemnon - It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound - Words are the physicians of the mind diseased. Aeschylus - The Seven Against Thebes - His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best. Aeschylus - Agamemnon - Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. Aeschylus - - It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. Aeschylus - - I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil. Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound - Time as he grows old teaches all things. Aeschylus - Agamemnon - I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. Aeschylus - - 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 - - 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 - - It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. Aeschylus - - In war, truth is the first casualty. |
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