Æschylus. 525-456 b. c

Theognis. 570(?)-490(?) b. c.

Wine is wont to show the mind of man.

Maxims. Line 500.

No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth.[694:1]

Maxims. Line 725.

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.[695:1]

Suppliants, 453.

"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.[695:2]

Suppliants, 707.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.[695:3]

Prometheus, 378.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

Prometheus, 981.

God's mouth knows not to utter falsehood, but he will perform each word.[695:4]

Prometheus, 1032.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.[695:5]

Agamemnon, 584.

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. . . . I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade.

Agamemnon, 832.

Exiles feed on hope.

Agamemnon, 1668.

Success is man's god.

Choephoræ, 59.

So in the Libyan fable it is told
That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,
Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,
"With our own feathers, not by others' hands,
Are we now smitten."[696:1]

Frag. 135 (trans. by Plumptre).

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.

Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).

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.

Frag. 250 (trans. by Plumptre).

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

Frag. 383.

Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.

Frag. 384.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Frag. 385.