Occupation: Dramatist Birth: 525 Bc Death: 456 Bc
It is through suffering that learning comes..
Old men are always young enough to learn with profit..
When a match has equal partners then I fear not..
Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god..
Art is far feebler than necessity..
For a single path leads to the house of Hades..
Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse..
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?.
Words are the parents of a causeless wrath..
Making it a valid law to learn by suffering..
Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind..
It is always in season for old men to learn..
For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them..
. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors..
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn.
For know that no one is free, except Zeus..
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?.
Ask the gods nothing excessive..
It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble..
Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out..
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impreg….