Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
AeschylusThe reward of suffering is experience.
[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.
AeschylusStichwörter: prometheus-bound
But there is a cure in the house,
and not outside it, no,
not from others but from them,
their bloody strife. We sing to you,
dark gods beneath the earth.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
AeschylusUnanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
AeschylusStichwörter: politics hate community ritual thanksgiving
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
AeschylusStichwörter: pain suffer die better
Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all.
-Cassandra
Stichwörter: destiny
In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
AeschylusHis resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
AeschylusStichwörter: ambition resolutions
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