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Aeschylus Quotes About Wisdom

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

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.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus Quotes About Happiness

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

More Quotes by Aeschylus

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

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.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

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