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“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”
-- Aeschylus
#Happiness #Positivity #Choices
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“I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.”
-- Aeschylus
#Silence #Speech #Misery
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“In war, truth is the first casualty.”
-- Aeschylus
#Peace #War #Fighting
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“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
#Inspirational #Sympathy #God
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“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”
-- Aeschylus
#Feet #Knees #Progressive
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“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
-- Aeschylus
#Friendship #Jealousy #Character
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“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”
-- Aeschylus
#Inspirational #May #Trunks
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“Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.”
-- Aeschylus
#Strength #Success #Men
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“It is always in season for old men to learn.”
-- Aeschylus
#Education #Men #Literature
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“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”
-- Aeschylus
#Positive #Wisdom #Intelligence
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“Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.”
-- Aeschylus
#Destiny #Men #Waiting
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“God ever works with those who work with will.”
-- Aeschylus
#Inspirational
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“But time growing old teaches all things.”
-- Aeschylus
#Time #Hunting #Growing
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“In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.”
-- Aeschylus
#House #Literature #Vote
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“He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.”
-- Aeschylus
#Envy #Literature #Admiration
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“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”
-- Aeschylus
#Inspirational #Mother #Wisdom
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“Time brings all things to pass.”
-- Aeschylus
#Time #Time Management
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“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
-- Aeschylus
#Missing You #Pain #Memories
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“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.”
-- Aeschylus
#Success #Mother #Safety
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“Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.”
-- Aeschylus
#Medicine #Community #Hatred
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“"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness”
-- Aeschylus
#Mother #Father #Law
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“A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.”
-- Aeschylus
#Stupidity #Fool #Burden
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“Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.”
-- Aeschylus
#Lying #Tyrants #Excellence
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“A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.”
-- Aeschylus
#House #Guilt #Demise
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“Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.”
-- Aeschylus
#Fate #Liberty #Tyranny
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“You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.”
-- Aeschylus
#Literature #Want #Ruins
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“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
-- Aeschylus
#Believe #Men #Promise
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“Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.”
-- Aeschylus
#Justice #Suffering #Literature
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“It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.”
-- Aeschylus
#Wise #Stupid #Inspiration
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“His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.”
-- Aeschylus
#Resolve
