Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
AESCHYLUSWho, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
AESCHYLUSIn every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
AESCHYLUSWho acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
AESCHYLUSAgainst necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
AESCHYLUSThere is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
AESCHYLUSHappiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
AESCHYLUSWisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.
AESCHYLUSFor somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
AESCHYLUSFor there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
AESCHYLUSDo not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
AESCHYLUSThere is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
AESCHYLUSWrong must not win by technicalities.
AESCHYLUSBut when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
AESCHYLUSGod’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
AESCHYLUSMy heart’s a dance of fear.
AESCHYLUSBetter to die on your feet than live on your knees.
AESCHYLUS