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“Even 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.”
― Aeschylus

“My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

“Nothing forces us to know
What we do not want to know
Except pain”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“To learn is to be young, however old.”
― Aeschylus

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom. ”
― Aeschylus

“They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

“In war, the first casualty is truth.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

“It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath”
― Aeschylus