Teschylus ( 525 ~ 456 BC )
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.