Occupation: Dramatist Birth: 525 Bc Death: 456 Bc
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen..
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen..
The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all..
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill..
What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors..
The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun..
Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray..
For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock..
If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance..
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight..
When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these..
For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill..
Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win..
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night..
Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends..
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts..
Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain.
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain..
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old..
Ares gives his verdict without witnesses..
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?.