God loves to help him who strives to help himself. There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new. High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this. It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Honor modesty more than your life. Exiles feed on hope. I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me.
I am wronged. It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. Do not kick against the pricks. Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time.
These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments. Myriad laughter of the ocean waves. The force of necessity is irresistible.
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. The man whose authority is recent is always stern. Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old. God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word. Memory is the mother of all wisdom. Alas, I am struck a deep mortal blow! Old men are always young enough to learn with profit. I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. A great ox stands on my tongue. A state that is prosperous always honors the gods. Only when man's life comes to end in prosperity can one call that man happy. Other translations of this passage from Aeschylus vary. Robert F. Kennedy, delivering an extemporaneous eulogy to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kennedy gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery. Dieter F. Samuel Clarke. We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God. Julian of Norwich. Anne Lamott. It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him. For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin. It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
It is always in season for old men to learn. Death is softer by far than tyranny. For children preserve the fame of a man after his death. It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers. Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. Time as he grows old teaches all things. Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.
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