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