What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
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Aeschylus
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About Aeschylus
Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian, often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in the theatre and allowed conflict among them. Formerly, characters interacted only with the chorus.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by AeschylusIt is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
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.
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
The words of truth are simple.
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
But time growing old teaches all things.
Time brings all things to pass.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
Excessive fear is always powerless.
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.
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.
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.