Top 15 Aeschylus Quotes

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.

My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.

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.

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

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

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

In war, truth is the first casualty.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

To learn is to be young, however old.

In war, the first casualty is truth.

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

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