Quotes from Ancient Times
Aeschylus, Greek Tragedian
To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being.
To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Necessity is stronger far than art.
Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Aeschylus Quotes
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
The reward of suffering is experience.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.]
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Call no man happy till he is dead.
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
Suffering brings experience.
To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
Insightful Quotes cards
It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.