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
pain wall suffering
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
sweet grief suffering
For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
blow suffering deeds
For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.
truth pain suffering
The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.
suffering birth glory
Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
men suffering doe
The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
long suffering lasts
Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
learning law suffering
Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.
pain suffering would-be
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
wisdom suffering
Wisdom cometh by suffering.
suffering
It is through suffering that learning comes.
feet light suffering
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
suffering
Only through suffering do we learn
men evil suffering
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.