Aeschylus

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

The reward of suffering is experience.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.]

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hand Are we now smitten."

Suffering brings experience.

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

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

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.

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.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Fountains of tears. [Lat., Fons lacrymarum.]