Quotes from Ancient Times
Teschylus ( 525 ~ 456 BC )
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath
Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Memorable Quotes
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
Insightful Quotes cards
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
t is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.