“I, of set will, speak words the wise may learn, To others, nought remember nor discern.”

— Aeschylus, Agamemnon, lines 38-39 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)

About Aeschylus

525 BC – 456 BC

Ancient Greek tragedian, author of "Prometheus Bound" and the "Oresteia".

“Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.”

“The walls of Athens are impregnable, Their firmest bulwarks her heroic sons.”

“But when a man speeds toward his own ruin, a god gives him help.”

“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”

“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”

“It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author—and not to learn it better.”

“There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.”