Aeschylus
Playwright of ancient Greece, the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.
"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured
Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed
By hymns of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse.