“Old men are always young enough to learn.”

— Aeschylus, Agamemnon, line 584 (tr. R. Lattimore)

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.”

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

“Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?”

“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.”

“One must learn to know oneself before knowing anything else.”

“To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language.”

“Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.”