Occupation: Dramatist Birth: 525 Bc Death: 456 Bc
When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime..
Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind..
No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and ….
I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind..
If you are not envied, you are not enviable..
As long as there are men the bulwark is safe..
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted..
In war the first casualty is the truth..
Myriad laughter of the ocean waves..
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life..
And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you encha….
Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire..
The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness..
Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight..
Suffering brings experience..
In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him..
The reward of pain is experience..
There is no avoidance in delay..
Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage..