Only through suffering do we learn Aeschylus More Quotes by Aeschylus More Quotes From Aeschylus There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor. Aeschylus disease health limits It is always in season for old men to learn. Aeschylus learning education men Truth is always the first casualty of war. Aeschylus truth-is war firsts Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end. Aeschylus length sorrow ends The reward of pain is experience. Aeschylus rewards pain Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen. Aeschylus hens boast Suffering brings experience. Aeschylus suffering With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Aeschylus feathers smitten hands I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. Aeschylus misery speech silence If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks. Aeschylus moderation acceptance teacher Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day. Aeschylus dream men children If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance. Aeschylus deliverance crime men In the sinews of the dead there is no blood. Aeschylus blood And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain. Aeschylus flow hands blood What good is it to live a life that brings pains? Aeschylus pain literature ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities. Aeschylus athena wish winning Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. Aeschylus pride wise believe For know that no one is free, except Zeus. Aeschylus zeus freedom knows Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart. Aeschylus wine mirrors heart On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged. Aeschylus mother air fall
