There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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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 AeschylusWhenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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.
God always strives together with those who strive.
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Excessive fear is always powerless.
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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that th…
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Call no man happy till he is dead.
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
By Time and Age full many things are taught.