Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
