I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Aeschylus

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
Aeschylus

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Aeschylus

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Aeschylus

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Aeschylus

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
Aeschylus

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
Aeschylus

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Aeschylus

It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Aeschylus

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
Aeschylus

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

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Aeschylus

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
Aeschylus

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
Aeschylus

Know not to revere human things too much.
Aeschylus

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Aeschylus

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus