Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Aeschyluswas an ancient Greek tragedian. His plays, alongside those of Sophocles and Euripides, are the only works of Classical Greek literature to have survived. He is often described as the father of tragedy: critics and scholars' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in theater to allow conflict among them, whereas characters previously had interacted only...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
greek-poet mother obedience parent success
Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.
positive wisdom world-suffering
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
destiny long praying
Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.
kindness kind
Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.
lessons late discreet
You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
justice afar looks
On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.
tongue stranger slander
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.
judgment fortune
Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.
prosperity fairs fortunate
We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
oil opponents vinegar
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
pain lifetime length
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
time
Time cleanses what it touches over time.
pain truth want
Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain
suffering
Only through suffering do we learn