Quotes from Aeschylus

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

Success is man's god.

Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.

Honor modesty more than your life.

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

The wisest of the wise may err.

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.