Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom. — 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
In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Trust my folly then, since it is best for a man truly wise to be thought a fool.” — 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
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
“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our… — 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
