quotes by Aeschylus

"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."
— Aeschylus

"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."
— Aeschylus

"Oh, the torment bred in the race,
the grinding scream of death
and the stroke that hits the vein,
the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief,
the curse no man can bear.

But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no,
not from others but from them,
their bloody strife. We sing to you,
dark gods beneath the earth.

Now hear, you blissful powers underground --
answer the call, send help.
Bless the children, give them triumph now."
— Aeschylus (The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies)

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

"A great ox stands on my tongue."
— Aeschylus (The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides)

"I know how men in exile feed on dreams."
— Aeschylus

"Suffering brings experience. "
— Aeschylus

"We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well."
— Aeschylus (Aeschylus I: Oresteia)

"He who learns must suffer. 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."
— Aeschylus (Aeschylus: Agamemnon)

""Words are doctors for the diseased temper.""
— Aeschylus

"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."
— Aeschylus

"God, whose law it is that 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 despite, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
"
— Aeschylus

"Bethink thee of the adage, 'Call none blest, till peaceful death have crowned a life of weal.'"
— Aeschylus

"I know how men in exile feed on dreams"
— Aeschylus

"Memory is the mother of all wisdom. "
— Aeschylus

"Call no man happy till he is dead."
— Aeschylus

"Death is softer by far than tyranny."
— Aeschylus

"It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath"
— Aeschylus