“Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.”

— Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (translation by E. H. Plumptre)

About Aeschylus

525 BC – 456 BC

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

“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.”

“Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.”

“Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior.”

Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

“No man loves life like him that's growing old.”

“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”

“Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.”

“No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.”