“Words are the wine of the heart.”
“Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.”
“For the imprudent, wisdom is only a burden.”
“For know that no one is free, except Zeus.”
“It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.”
“The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.”
“It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.”
“I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long weary job.”
“There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”
“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”
“By suffering comes wisdom.”
“To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.”
“Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.”
“Wisdom comes through suffering.”
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
“By polluting clear water with slime, you will never find good drinking water.”
“For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.”
“Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.”
“The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.”
“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”
Aeschylus Quotes :
“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
“In war, truth is the first casualty.”
“God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.”
“When a man’s willing and eager, the god’s join in.”
“It is always in season for old men to learn.”
“It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.”
“Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.”
“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.”
“Time as he grows old teaches all things.”
“The man who does ill must suffer ill.”
“For there is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire.”
“God loves to help him who strives to help himself.”
“Men in exile feed on hopes.”
“I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.”
“For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”
“In visions of the night, like dropping rain, descend the many memories of pain.”
“For a house that is empty of greed and corruption is full of the blessings of the gods.”
“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”
“Only when man’s life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.”
“Fear is stronger than arms.”
“To mourn and lament over evils is vain; to shun them is the virtue of a wise man.”
“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
“In the lack of judgment, great harm arises.”
“Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.”
“For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.”
“Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.”
“A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.”
“For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.”
“Call no man happy till he is dead.”
“In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.”