Occupation: Dramatist Birth: 525 Bc Death: 456 Bc
[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon….
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain..
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death..
For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame..
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief ….
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..
When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will..
Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us..
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath..
Call no man happy till he is dead..
But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness..
Everyone's quick to blame the alien..
On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar..
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now a….
Memory is the mother of all wisdom..
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel..
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased..
Time cleanses what it touches over time..
No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim..
The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm i….
"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness..