Quotes from Aeschylus

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

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

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

To learn is to be young, however old.

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief, the curse no man can bear. But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no, not from others but from them, their bloody strife. We sing to you, dark gods beneath the earth. Now hear, you blissful powers underground -- answer the call, send help. Bless the children, give them triumph now.

In war, the first casualty is truth.

They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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

Suffering brings experience.

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

There is no avoidance in delay.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

She looked just like a painting dying to speak.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath