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Aeschylus5 quotes
Zeus, author of all, worker of all! For what is brought to pass for mortal men save by will of Zeus? What herein is not wrought of god? — Aeschylus · 458 BCJustice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. — Aeschylus · 458 BCNo, death would be better, for that would be a milder lot than tyranny. — Aeschylus · 458 BCWho told them
that they were dead. — AeschylusReverence for parents stands written third among the statutes of Justice, to whom honor supreme is due. — Aeschylus · 465 BCSophocles4 quotes
For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues. — Sophocles · 442 BCLove, unconquerable,
Waster of rich men, keeper
Of warm lights and all-night vigil
In the soft face of a girl:
Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!
Even the pure immortals cannot escape you,
And mortal man, in his one day's dusk,
Trembles before your glory. — Sophocles · 442 BCThe tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his great sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope. — Sophocles · 430 BCNot to be born surpasses thought and speech.
The second best is to have seen the light
And then to go back quickly whence we came. — Sophocles · 406 BCEuripides2 quotes
Mere cleverness is not wisdom. — Euripides · 405 BCLove distills desire upon the eyes,
love brings bewitching grace into the heart
of those he would destroy.
I pray that love may never come to me
with murderous intent,
in rhythms measureless and wild.
Not fire nor stars have stronger bolts
than those of Aphrodite sent
by the hand of Eros, Zeus' child. — Euripides · 428 BCT.S. Eliot2 quotes
Where is the wisdom we have lost in
knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in
information? — T.S. Eliot · 1934Yet we have gone on living,
Living and partly living. — T.S. Eliot · 1935Seneca1 quote
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. — Seneca · 65