Quote #42

The reward of suffering is experience.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from Aeschylus

  1. The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
  2. The wisest of the wise may err.
  3. 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 feat…
  4. There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
  5. Necessity is stronger far than art.
  6. There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
  7. It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
  8. To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

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