95 quotes found
5th century BC Athenian Greek tragedian · Greek
5th century BC Athenian Greek tragedian
“Every medicine is vain.”
“My heart's a dance of fear.”
“Fear is stronger than arms.”
“Delay not to seize the hour!”
“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”
“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
“There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.”
“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”
“Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of deathand the stroke that hits the vein,the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief,the curse no man can bear.But there is a cure in the house...”
“For Ares, lord of strife, Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold, Wars money-changer, giving dust for gold, Sends back, to hearts that held them dear, Scant ash of warriors, wept with many a ...”
“And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.”
“Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods.”
“I know how men in exile feed on dreams”
“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”
“In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain”
“Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.”
“Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.”
“There is no avoidance in delay.”
“Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all. -C...”
“It is always in season for old men to learn.”
“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”
“For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.”