More From Aeschylus
- "Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter – Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes – A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting."
- "He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
- "Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."
More In Wisdom
- "No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man."― John Selden
- "They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed."― William Cowper
- "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."― William Blake