Quotes by Aeschylus with pain

Aeschylus

Aeschylus

Greek dramatist

Lived from: 525 - 456

  • Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
  • If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
  • 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.
  • When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
  • When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
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  • 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.
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  • There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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  • Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?.
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  • Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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