“Every medicine is vain.” 

“We should know what is true before we break our rage.” 

“Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.” 

“It is always in season for old men to learn.” 

“No mortal can complete his life unharmed and unpunished throughout--ah ah! Some troubles are here now, some will come later." Chorus, Aeschylus' "Eumenides" from the Oresteia” 

“The sleeping brain has eyes that give us light; we can never see our destiny by day.” 

“But to speak ill of people at hand who give no cause for blame, is to assume a right far distinct from justice.” 

“I have suffered into truth (...) Time refines all things that age with time” 

“No shame, I think, in the death given this man. And did he not first of all in this house wreak death by treachery? 1525 The flower of this man’s love and mine, Iphigeneia of the many tears— he dealt with her even as he has suffered now.° So let his speech in Death’s house be not loud. With the sword he struck; with the sword he paid for his own act.” 

“It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.” 

“For not many men . . . can love a friend who fortune prospers without envying; and about the envious brain cold poison clings and doubles all the pain life brings him. His own woundings he must nurse, and feel another's gladness like a curse.” 

“I will speak in defense of reason: for the very child of vanity is violence.” 

“If bright water you stain with mud, you nevermore will find it fit to drink.” 

“You have learned the lesson by experience.” 

“When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.” 

“Give me an answer which is plain to understand.” 

“I have not need to promise what I cannot do.” 

“In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.” 

“Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.” 

“This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.” 

“A curse burns bright on crime.” 

“A tyrant's trust dishonors those who earn it.” 

“Look at him, look how he drips unhealth—shudder object!” 

“We nearly always live through screens—a screened existence. And I sometimes think, when people say my work looks violent, that I have been able to clear away one or two of the veils or screens.4” 

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

“Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man fortunate.” 

“My heart's a dance of fear.” 

“Death is a softer thing by far than tyranny.” 

“Time brings all things to pass.” 

“Excessive fear is always powerless.” 

“When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.” 

“Pain both ways and what is worse?” 

“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.” 

“Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another.” 

“Old men are always young enough to learn, with profit.” 

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

“But concern not thou thyself vainly with matters that are of no advantage.” 

“Time in its aging course teaches all things.” 

“But you cannot speak of any glory for happenings that are at once evil and held in dishonor.” 

“What suckling craved the creature, born full-fanged?” 

“Commander against commander, brother against brother, enemy against enemy, I will take my stand. Quick, bring my greaves to protect against spears and stones!” 

“But who can recount all 595 the high daring in the will of man, and in the stubborn hearts of women the all-adventurous passions that couple with man’s overthrow.” 

“Right’s anvil stands staunch on the ground and the smith, Destiny, hammers out the sword. Delayed in glory, pensive from 650 the murk, Vengeance brings home at last a child, to wipe out the stain of blood shed long ago.” 

“I shall select judges of manslaughter, and swear them in, establish a court into all time to come. 485 Litigants, call your witnesses, have ready your proofs as evidence under bond to keep this case secure. I will pick the finest of my citizens, and come back. They shall swear to make no judgment that is not just, and make clear where in this action the truth lies.” 

“I salute you as the Gates of Death” 

“Learning comes through pain.” 

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

“It can hardly be coincidence that at just that same time, in 508, the Athenians radically changed their political constitution to transfer ultimate power to the people (demos)—in other words, they inaugurated the world’s first democracy. So the first performance of the Oresteia may well mark the fiftieth birthday both of democracy and of theater.” 

“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”