78 Famous Quotes By Aeschylus, The Author Of The Oresteia
Aeschylus was a playwright and soldier from ancient Greece who lived from around 525 BC till 455 BC. He is regarded as one of the great playwrights and is also credited for being the pioneer of the tragedy that went on to become a hugely popular genre of stage plays. Aeschylus was born in an influential family and started writing tragedies while still very young; however, he was also involved in the Persian wars as a young boy that interrupted his writing career. His experiences as a soldier went on to have a profound influence on his life and works. Aeschylus participated in plenty of dramatic competitions throughout his life and most of his works became popular from there. His mastery of the tragedy dazzled everyone and before long he became one of the noted playwrights of his times. Some of his noted surviving works include ‘The Libation Bearers’, ‘The Suppliants’, ‘The Persians’, ‘Agamemnon’ and ‘Seven Against Thebes’. Needless to say, Aeschylus was a person who was far ahead of his time as far as the craft of writing plays was concerned and during his lifetime, he left behind plenty of notable quotes as well. Here are the very best ones.
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.
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.
My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.
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.
Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Suffering brings experience.
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
To learn is to be young, however old.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
There is no avoidance in delay.
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn
Call no man happy till he is dead.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death
Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
The reward of suffering is experience.
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.
It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath
Words are doctors for the diseased temper.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Only through suffering do we learn
Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
