Occupation: Dramatist Birth: 525 Bc Death: 456 Bc
Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods..
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger..
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends..
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery..
Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery..
Simple is the speech of truth..
I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, m….
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him..
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy..
I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time..
Do not kick against the pricks..
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm..
God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house..
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead..
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine ….
Only through suffering do we learn.
You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet..
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering..
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers..
The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things..
Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long..