Aeschylus Quotes About Sleep
-
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
→ -
When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.
→ -
Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.
→ -
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.
→
Related Authors
-
Plautus Playwright -
Demosthenes Greek Statesman -
Pindar Poet -
Sophocles Playwright -
Homer Author -
Pericles Greek Statesman -
Hesiod Poet -
Euripides Writer -
Thucydides Historian -
Aristophanes Playwright -
Herodotus Historian -
Menander Dramatist -
Pythagoras Philosopher -
Virgil Poet -
Aesop Author -
Socrates Philosopher -
Plato Philosopher -
Seneca the Younger Philosopher -
Aristotle Philosopher -
Sappho Lyric poet