Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.
AESCHYLUSTo learn is to be young, however old.
More Aeschylus Quotes
-
-
I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
AESCHYLUS -
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.
AESCHYLUS -
Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
AESCHYLUS -
Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.
AESCHYLUS -
In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
AESCHYLUS -
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
AESCHYLUS -
Don’t try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped.
AESCHYLUS -
Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
AESCHYLUS -
Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
AESCHYLUS -
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
AESCHYLUS -
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
AESCHYLUS -
Suffering brings experience.
AESCHYLUS -
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
AESCHYLUS -
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn.
AESCHYLUS -
Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
AESCHYLUS -
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
AESCHYLUS -
But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
AESCHYLUS -
I have not need to promise what I cannot do.
AESCHYLUS -
In war, the first casualty is truth.
AESCHYLUS -
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
AESCHYLUS -
Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
AESCHYLUS -
Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
AESCHYLUS -
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
AESCHYLUS -
For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.
AESCHYLUS -
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
AESCHYLUS -
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
AESCHYLUS