Aeschylus Quotes
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Time brings all things to pass.
Ask the gods, nothing excessive.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
Every ruler is harsh whose rule is new.
But time, growing old teaches all things.
Those who prosper take on airs of vanity.
Time in its aging course teaches all things.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
It is always in season for the old to learn.
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?
The lust for power never dies—men cannot have enough.
In marriage, when there are equal partners, I fear not.
It is a high advantage for a wise man not to seem wise.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
Against necessity, against its strength, no man can fight and win.
The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
Nor sitting by his hearth at home doth a man escape his appointed doom.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot Is on the outside of calamity to give advice.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end This poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Few men have the strength of character to rejoice in a friend's success without a touch of envy.
It is easy for the one who stands outside The prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one Who suffers.
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.
