Aeschylus

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

The words of truth are simple.

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

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 of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

Wisdom comes through suffering._x000D_ Trouble, with its memories of pain,_x000D_ Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,_x000D_ So men against their will_x000D_ Learn to practice moderation._x000D_ Favours come to us from gods.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

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.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.