Famous Quotes by Aeschylus

Below are famous quotes by Aeschylus - Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC - 456 BC).

He who learns must suffer. 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.

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

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

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse.

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