BY SOFO ARCHON
Here are 22 of my favorite quotes from the ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus on topics such as time, suffering, god, truth, wisdom, and happiness:
1. “God loves to help him who strives to help himself.”
2. “It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.”
3. “Words are doctors for the diseased temper.”
4. “He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.”
5. “The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.”
6. “The words of truth are simple.”
7. “Only when man’s life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.”
8. “Do not kick against the pricks.”
9. “It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
10. “Time brings all things to pass.”
11. “If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.”
12. “Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”
13. “Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.”
14. “Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.”
15. “The reward of suffering is experience.”
16. “It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
17. “What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?”
18. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
19. “Wisdom comes through suffering.”
20. “You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.”
21. “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
22. “Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”